(later added to bandcamp) 11.Mixtape 03:31 (this also comes up as "Bonus Track", and is on DFTBA as "Mixtape (Bonus Track)") Tom Milsom’s second album, ‘Painfully Mainstream,’ (DFTBA Records) skips from genre to genre, briefly settling on pop, folk and rock, and skipping through subtler shades of music, from post-rock to antifolk, from gypsy-punk to all-out thrash metal, but held under control and pinned together with Milsom’s unforced, uniquely British vocal style. The backbone of the album consists of four songs named after seasons, ‘Autumnsong’ being a nine-minute post-rock epic reminiscent of Mogwai or Explosions In The Sky, while ‘Wintersong’ is a Pink Floyd tinged closer to an album that ends almost impossibly differently to how it started. The album title is clearly a joke, but subtler than you might imagine. Hidden amongst this unusual album are nuggets of instrumentation not out of place on many records you hear every day on the radio – it’s not the techniques Milsom uses that are unusual; it’s how he hangs them together that makes this record something completely unique. It’s as though, in his search for a fitting medium to express himself, he sets off on a journey through music and comes up with something at once like everyone else, and like nobody other than himself. From The old Main last.fm page for Tom: Milsom’s newest project is the release of his second solo album, “Painfully Mainstream” through DFTBA Records with production support from 19 Entertainme