Less Love More Acid
Milk at Midnight
Cat No. 007666-6LP and 6D

The charming and sonically affable local outfit Milk at Midnight celebrates the release of “Less Love More Acid” (Stars/No Stars Records) tonight, the trio’s second full-length. The classic-rock-inspired indie pop bounces along in an even more psychedelic way this time around, but not at the expense of the band’s endearing youthfulness and tendency to lean towards the dramatic. But the ability to pull off both a dark-edged indie-rock song like “Kristol Ball” and an acoustic-guitar-led song like “Sticks in My Stomach” is impressive; the album’s title track, probably the best song of the collection, has a driving intensity that could for sure inspire a room.

—Tom Lynch, New City Chicago

Milk At Midnight experimented with mixing Appalachian mountain-man touches to thundering rock rhythms on their last EP, and the new album sees them taking that aesthetic and expanding it over a number of new songs. One of the most interesting things about the band is the inner conflict they seem to be constantly fighting when it comes to what the band's sounds should be. Singer-guitarist Danny Doom wants to writer classic rock epic protest songs, but the interplay between his and Rick Nitz's guitars creates tapestries that suck you in just as Eric Anderson's thundering drums threaten to bounce you right back out again. The band's sound shifts, darts, and defies pigeonholing. This is a band that would sound right in place touring econo in 1984 as they would opening ffor pearl Jam in 1994 or putting on a psychedelic lightshow at Metro in 2009.

—Tankboy, Chicagoist.com

Despite their name, locals Milk at Midnight don’t aim to be particularly soothing and sleep inducing. These guys sound a little pushy, like somebody at a bar who’s oblivious to your personal space, but if you can forgive that you’re in for some fun: their third album, Less Love More Acid (Stars/No Stars), fully embraces both stiff-legged Napoleon Dynamite geekery and blitzing hard-rock riffs. I suspect that deep in their hearts they’d really like to be Kiss, but they must know they wouldn’t be able to keep their balance on platform boots with all those blinding lights going off in their faces.

—Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

Stars/No Stars is pleased to welcome the newest member of the family, Chicago's Milk at Midnight. Their SNS debut is the band's third release, and their most ambitious to date. Less Love More Acid is the sound of the American Dream as seen through a bad trip. It's an argument to end the world. It's apple pie and riot gear. Danny Doom (vocals, guitar), Rick Nitz (guitar, bass, vocals), and Eric Anderson (drums, vocals) provide a soundtrack for the end of the Bush years that moves from political outrage to the karmic repercussions of identity theft, with surprising stops in between. Stars/No Stars is pleased to introduce the newest member of the family with a whole new twist to our digital distribution - high fidelity 24 bit WAV files are now included on a data CD for folks that purchase the vinyl. Not into LPs? No prob. We got 192kbps MP3s ready for download.