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Breaking Every Rule in the Book: Anthony Mills Unleashes a Sonic Storm with ‘hook lyin and sinker’
I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. I thought I’d heard it all. I thought nothing could surprise me. Seriously — how many times can we go through this? Electronica, country, trippy loops, VHS samples, trap beats, chillwave on accordion — how many more ways can you try to throw a curveball? But here comes Anthony Mills with a new track, hook lyin and sinker, and once again I’m sitting there like a fool, hitting play for the third time in a row, asking myself: what was that?
It’s the opening track of the third part of his countryside trilogy — and it sounds like he just paused for a moment and thought, “What if I threw everything out — the arrangement, the structure, the logic — and just left a voice that knows what to do even in silence?” And that’s exactly what he did. Silence. Fragmented melodies scattered like they were hidden under pillows in different homes, across different countries, in different decades. And yet, somehow, they click into place.
What I love about Mills is that nothing he does is accidental. It always seems like chaos, but it’s the kind of chaos that’s been thought through so thoroughly it would make an academic jealous. Anthony Mills walks into places nobody else dares to go — either because they’re afraid or they think it won’t fit the mold. But he goes. And when he does, it works.
Gabriel Rivera(Writer) MARCH 2025 Indie Boulevard
I honestly don’t know what to think anymore. I thought I’d heard it all. I thought nothing could surprise me. Seriously — how many times can we go through this? Electronica, country, trippy loops, VHS samples, trap beats, chillwave on accordion — how many more ways can you try to throw a curveball? But here comes Anthony Mills with a new track, hook lyin and sinker, and once again I’m sitting there like a fool, hitting play for the third time in a row, asking myself: what was that?
It’s the opening track of the third part of his countryside trilogy — and it sounds like he just paused for a moment and thought, “What if I threw everything out — the arrangement, the structure, the logic — and just left a voice that knows what to do even in silence?” And that’s exactly what he did. Silence. Fragmented melodies scattered like they were hidden under pillows in different homes, across different countries, in different decades. And yet, somehow, they click into place.
What I love about Mills is that nothing he does is accidental. It always seems like chaos, but it’s the kind of chaos that’s been thought through so thoroughly it would make an academic jealous. Anthony Mills walks into places nobody else dares to go — either because they’re afraid or they think it won’t fit the mold. But he goes. And when he does, it works.
Gabriel Rivera(Writer) MARCH 2025 Indie Boulevard
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