HOT MILK- RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘THE AMERICAN MACHINE’

Manchester, UK –HOT MILK have today released their single “The American Machine” which tears down the hateful right-wing MAGA rhetoric. The single precedes their new album “Corportation P.O.P” which is set for release on 27th June 2025.

Singer Han Mee explains:

“It is difficult to love the world right now on the global stage. The imperialistic and dangerous rhetoric coming out the USA cannot be ignored. The language and aggression is becoming more ridiculous every day, it feels like the days of decorum and level-headed governance are in the past.

When we look to our cousins across the pond I don’t recognise a common goal, it gets stranger with each passing week. This song is not anti-American, it is anti-arsehole, anti-hate, anti-oligarch. Essentially, America can keep its weird shit over there. We do not want a piece of the American machine. The system is breaking. We have seen your country sevenfold and the love and understanding for those who are struggling is waning within your walls I thought you were built on so-called Christian values? We live in scary and stupid times, how could we not put our worries into song form?

There is always hope, however.  I know common sense prevails within many people and good does reside in the USA. It’s up to the rest of us continue and ride this out and to do what we can”.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “THE AMERICAN MACHINE” BELOW

The band have also just announced a series of parties/signings and acoustic shows in celebration of the albums release.

CORPORATION P.O.P RELEASE WEEK

27th June – Signature Brew, Blackhorse Road-Album release party x Kerrang!
28th June- YES Manchester, Pink Room- Album release party x Kerrang!
29th June- Banquet Records, Kingston -Signing only
4th July- Key Club, Leeds- Acoustic performance + Singing
5th July- Rough Trade Bristol- Acoustic performance + Singing
6th July- Rough Trade Nottingham- Acoustic performance + Singing
8th July HMV Vault, Birmingham Acoustic performance + Singing

Tickets Hotmilk.com

HOT MILK previously announced their UK headline run for this Autumn, which will see them playing their biggest headline shows to date. The tour, which comes off the back of their Slam Dunk K! stage headline slot this weekend and a successful full US run, will see the band supported by  Cassyette and Silly Goose.

HOT MILK- HEADLINER
17th November SWG3 Galvanizers- Glasgow
19th November Roundhouse – London
20th November  O2 Institute – Birmingham
22nd November O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester

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HOT MILK’s sophomore album, Corporation P.O.P. is an extravagant, uncompromising assessment of the perilous world around us, examined through a sharp British lens that is both witty and universal.

Having studied a politics degree, Han Mee has used that with Corporation P.O.P. – where Hot Milk unleash the pent-up anger experienced en masse around the globe. “I’ve always felt like a bit of a white knight – it’s my duty to save the world somehow,” says Han. “I feel very, very impacted by the world’s issues, consistently. I wanted to be an MEP [Member of European Parliament], that was my dream.” 

Despite its global outlook, Corporation P.O.P. is an album that takes root in Manchester and Salford, exemplified by the band’s decision to shoot all of their videos in their hometown. “Newt Gingrich, who was a US politician, once said ‘All politics is local’,” says Han. “I’m trying to look local and be involved locally so I can affect my world. This is how I survive, because the world can feel overwhelming.”

“Manchester is the best f’in city in the world,” she continues, getting somewhat emotional, having recently u-turned from a permanent move to LA when Manchester came calling back to her. “We started this band in Manchester, it’s intrinsic to me and who I am. It has to bleed into the art we create, because it helped me create it.”

Produced by the band’s own Jim Shaw, with Zach Jones and KJ Strock, you can sense Hot Milk’s killer instinct throughout the record, a result of the intensive writing process and recorded as live album, it offers the band at their heaviest with their raw, unapologetic lyrics which brim with unfiltered emotion.

Snapshotting the gloom of the present and unloading very real fears for the future, the sentiment behind ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ might feel locked inside a time capsule. But fast forward two decades, and time will surely prove why this record carries the hallmarks of something timeless.

Hot Milk will be playing a series of dates this Spring and Summer. Remaining dates below:
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17th November SWG3- Glasgow
19th November Roundhouse -London
20th November  O2 Institute- Birmingham
22nd November O2 Victoria Warehouse -Manchester

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Video features Frank Skinner

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The album Corporation P.O.P will be released on 27th June 2025 Music For Nations HERE

The album will be available as Colour LP, Band Store Exclusive LP and CD.