Hot Mulligan

Like many bands last year, Lansing, Michigans Hot Mulliganthe 1 Hot New Band per their Facebook pageput out an LP in 2020 that they didnt get to tour. This year, theyll release I Wont Reach Out To You, a six-track EP that operates as a response to their 2020 full-length Youll Be Fine. The EP is bookended on the first and last tracks by a resounding glance-back at a world that simply doesnt exist anymore: Stay home, stay homeYou said it wouldnt make a difference whether we could be together or not.

On opener One For The Boy, those words are a serene, mournful observation, but by Please Dont Cry, You Have Swag, theyre a volatile explosion, a group-yelled diagnosis set to thundering guitars, bass, and drums. These facts also explain Hot Mulligan: a group of shitposting gamers from far reaches of Michigan (and one from Iowa) who became best friends at college and started making music that works through the endless weirdness of growing up in this moment. The result of these things is earnest, affecting emo punk, presented with a song title created by typing into autocorrect with eyes closed.

Nothing is black and white, says rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Chris Freeman. I like to think that we challenge each other mentally and as friends to do better and grow together. Were also just shitposters and trolls.

Freeman and lead vocalist Nathan Tades Sanville came up together playing in local punk bands in rural Michigan before moving to Lansing in search of greater opportunity, where they met lead guitarist Ryan Spicy Malicsi and drummer Brandon Blakeley. When the music just becomes a reflection of life and growing up, then when were bonding over music, were bonding over our lives together, says Freeman.

That intimacy and interdependence works in extremes. You see your friends in their lowest places, says Freeman. But you also see them when theyre doing everything they wanted to do.

The band recorded I Wont Reach Out To You in Pilesgrove, New Jersey with producer Gary Cioni (Grayscale, Free Throw) at his Sound Acres Studio. Freeman, Cioni and Dash Williams shared engineering duties. The majority of the record was written in studio over the course of a two-week period.

The EP details the first major dying-off of connections and relationships in a life. Its an experience thats familiar but always jarring. You spend your youth hearing your parents talk about friends they havent seen in years, and you think how ridiculous that sounds. Then suddenly, youre 25, and realize you havent spoken with your old best pal since high school graduation. It happens fast, and its weird. Its not always about not reaching out to someone because theyre toxic, says Freeman. Its just because people grow apart.

I Wont Reach Out To You is an exploration of this process that constantly reproduces itself across our lives, which forces us to square two facts: those times and the people we knew were awesome, and theyre over now, forever. Freeman says its about reminiscing on people you knew in the past, but acknowledging that the past is the past.

One For The Boy introduces this over a gentle wash of guitar and ghostly vocals as Sanville laments, Hey, I feel us growing apartCould we just talk or is it not the right time? A snare drum rolls in the distance and goes quiet, and in bursts earworm pop punk blast Featuring Mark Hoppus on compressed, crunchy guitars and Sanvilles full-tilt belt: I kinda miss youBack in highschool25 and I still think about your drawings that you made.

Losing Days follows with acoustic guitar and Sanvilles breathless vocals: Losing days because its hard to reason leaving the bedDebts been building since we got hereStaying the sameForget it! Its a tight 90 seconds that give way to Pop Shuvit (hall of meat, duh), a perfect slice of pounding, Taking Back Sunday-style emo pop that tracks the tiring relentlessness of growing up while realizing that no one at the top is looking out for you. Please Dont Cry, You Have Swag closes on nostalgia and a cruel coming-to-terms with the passage of time, as clear finger-picking broods and Sanvilles vocals long for a return to an impossible before: You think I matter less than politicsWhen all I want is fresh paint, before we ever wouldve talked like this. The final minute crescendos into a shattering breakdown while Sanville repeats the first songs remarks to a backing chorus of, Stay home, stay home. Hot Mulligan are just as likely to write a beautiful, devastating treatise on growing apartboth literally and spiritually, from your friends and your old selfas they are to make a song and video about putting on sunglasses (which they have done). This is the Hot Mulligan way: life is serious and scary, but you just gotta make a meme about it with your buds.

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