Hot Milk Drops Bombs with “Corporation P.O.P” Announcement and Shares Video for New Single “90 Seconds To Midnight”

Due out June 27th via Music For Nations, Hot Milk has announced their sophomore album, “Corporation P.O.P”. While retaining their fun, lighthearted vibe and  tongue-in-cheek lyrics, they’ve woven in political commentary about the state of their home country across the pond and the experience of returning home after extensive touring.

Jim Shaw shares his take: “Corporation P.O.P is a flurry of thoughts, feelings, ramblings from the afters n questions about where we’re at right now in England, the further western world and emotionally. It is an entry from the perspective of us lot who live a dichotomy of months in faraway lands and then experience the sudden grounding of returning home to Salford. It’s hard not to compare, contrast, and try to understand. P.O.P = Payment of Pain. We all must live with the burden of modernity and this pain has been commodified; we all must pay. Corporation pop itself is a term Han’s grandad used to refer to the water supply, something that runs throughout all our homes, just as current events run through us all.”

Hot Milk has also released the video for “90 Seconds To Midnight,” the first single from the new album. This fast-paced, hard-hitting track about embracing the end was directed by longtime friend Kennedy and features a cameo from legendary British comedian and entertainer Frank Skinner. Shot in a DIY style near their homes in Salford, the video complements the song’s raw energy.

Han Mee explains: “The doomsday clock is nearing midnight and this frantic song sets the mood for the oncoming nuclear winter. We wanted to punch you proper in the face with this, this balls to the wall little riffy boy comes bounding at you relentlessly. Lyrically, we took inspiration from 17th century philosopher Rousseau and the poet John Betjemen with his poem ‘Slough.’ Rousseau set out that humanity would never be free as we create our own shackles. In this case, we’ve created our own demise. Where as Betjemens poem takes this notion of demise and laughs at it, inviting the nukes in ‘come friendly bombs’…. Let’s set the gaff on fire and start again.”

Catch Hot Milk on tour with a few special UK headlining dates and as openers for Magnolia Park on the Vamp Tour in the US this spring.

UK Headlining Shows

4/4 - Edinburgh, UK - La Belle Angèle

4/6 - Sheffield, UK - The Corporation

4/7 - Norwich, UK - UEA The Waterfront

4/9 - Oxford, UK - O2 Academy2 Oxford

4/10 - Cardiff, UK - The Globe

4/11 - Brighton, UK - Patterns

U.S. Spring Tour (with Magnolia Park):

4/16 — Charlotte, NC — The Underground

4/17 — Atlanta, GA — Terminal West

4/18 — Orlando, FL — The Beacham

4/19 — Fort Lauderdale, FL — Culture Room

4/22 — Baltimore, MD — Baltimore Soundstage

4/23 — Philadelphia, PA — Union Transfer

4/25 — Hartford, CT — The Webster

4/26 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club

4/27 — New York, NY — Gramercy Theatre

4/29 — Richmond, VA — The Canal Club

5/1 — Detroit, MI — Saint Andrew’s Hall

5/2 — Millvale, PA — Mr. Smalls Theatre, Funhouse & Cafe

5/3 — Cleveland, OH — The Roxy

5/4 — Toronto, ON — Lee’s Palace

5/6 — Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall

5/7 — Minneapolis, MN — Fine Line

5/9 — Lawrence, KS — The Bottleneck

5/10 — Denver, CO — Summit Music Hall

5/11 — Salt Lake City, UT — Soundwell

5/13 — Seattle, WA — El Corazon

5/14 — Portland, OR — Star Theater

5/16 — Sacramento, CA — Goldfield Trading Post

5/17 — Los Angeles, CA — Echoplex

5/18 — Phoenix, AZ — Ben’s Bells Project /Phoenix Studio

5/20 — Dallas, TX — Trees

7/26 & 7/27 — Long Beach, CA — Warped Tour 2025

9/19 — Louisville, KY — Louder Than Life Festival

Head back to Evaporated in the spring as we’re working to provide coverage of Hot Milk and The Vamp Tour with Magnolia Park (by yours truly).

Stream “90 Seconds To Midnight” or pre-order “Corporation P.O.P” here:https://hotmilk.lnk.to/CorporationPOP

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