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Artist
Milquetoast & Co.
12+ albums
rockabillyrockbluesloungecello
about
On those long nights when you find yourself tossing and turning with less than three hours until the alarm clock goes off, your mind tends to do some incredible things. In those moments you become a passenger on a ride through the liminal space between sleep and wakefulness: a land filled with disorienting dreams that are permeated with grains of lucidity. Milquetoast & Co have been on this trip and came back to write about their experience in The Land of Milquebelieve. For their second release; their first chance to write and record as a five-piece band, Milquetoast & Co (pronounced “milk toast and company”) returned to work with Rotary Records’ engineer/producer Warren Amerman. Together they created what is, in contrast to their first collaboration, Drinking and Smoking Too Much with Women I Hate, a much more stripped-down yet notably more complex record. This time around, Jim McAndrew (vocals/guitar), Joe Mageary (bass), Panama Quinn (percussion), Robin Ryczek (cello), and Bill Whitney (horns/guitar) let the music speak for itself. The band is proud to say that what you hear on Milquebelieve is precisely what you will get at a live performance. Milquetoast & Co use the tales from The Land of Milquebelieve to broaden their musical scope and further define their style. Where the band’s first record took heavily from time-tested rock and blues formulas and sprinkled in a touch of “other stuff” to make things interesting, The Land of Milquebelieve provides a soundscape that
