🎧 Approved: MLEKO

Manchester seven-piece MLEKO describe their sound as ‘gub rock’, which, like all good made-up genres, is more of a shrug than a statement: “Gub rock? It’s been termed post-punk, art rock, post-rock, alt rock, prog rock, to the point where we are just as lost as everyone else”, they explain.

New single ‘Tom’s Tune’ continues this genre-defying sentiment. Opening with pastoral neo-folk tinged guitar before building into a skittering cut of alternative rock; it’s a MLEKO sanctioned exorcism. 

“I reverberate around in echo chambers now” they scream. Distorted guitar and saxophone trade blows across seven minutes, landing somewhere dark, brooding and genuinely alive.

The band, with characteristic self-awareness, offer this, “‘Tom’s Tune’ is our best shot at encapsulating the MLEKO spectrum. We are sorry that it took seven minutes and some choral wailing to do that”. 

Call them art-punk, call them post-everything, call them metalified neo-folk noise wizards with a brass fetish, MLEKO is an articulate goliath that keeps it weird, beautiful and joyous. 

🎧 Watch the video for ‘Tom’s Tune’ below