Mild Weather

New 7” from Scotland’s avant-pop post-punks Buffet Lunch, following on from their well-received debut LP The Power of Rocks earlier this year. Jayne Dent of Me Lost Me features on vocals too.

A-side inside and B-side outside: this single is very loosely influenced by the collective experience of the long wait to be released; adding to the already exhausted canon of cultural covid artefacts. Cheeks is centred around the sub-bass of an old Italian organ and the honking sax of Iain McCall, telling the tale of a squashed individual. The overzealous approach to layers hopefully adds to the feeling of claustrophobia and mundane delirium.

If Cheeks is the wind up, Mild Weather is the release. An ode to the modern desire of one week in the sun, accepting that prize and returning back to the slog. Jayne’s beautiful vocal provides the center-point to a Casio led symphony, with acoustic and electronic drums fighting for attention throughout.

As is the current norm, these tracks were written and recorded remotely and in a couple of sessions in Edinburgh at the beginning of 2021.