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26 Feb 2024

Mildlife review: 'Chorus' is an ironic title for the Oz act's third outing

Jeff Jenkins

STACK Writer

Just over a decade on from their inception - and four years after their ARIA-winning second album - jazz-fusion act Mildlife have lobbed their new record into the ring.


At a glance
  • Mildlife's third album Chorus arrives this week

  • The record is an enormously adventurous trip from the classification-defying Melbourne act


There’s no other Australian band quite like Mildlife. And Chorus – the follow-up to their Top 10 smash Automatic, which won 2021's ARIA for 'Best Jazz Album' – finds them at their most adventurous.

African beats segue into trippy electropop – and that’s just the opening cut, Forever.

Drummer Jim Rindfleish says the record is “about cosmic capability and chemistry: what makes things work… it’s the rhythm of nature”. The Melbourne four-piece fuse jazz, disco, and yacht rock, and somehow it works.

Chorus is an ironic title for their third studio album, because it really sounds like one long, sophisticated jam. The 9.11-minute title track is filled with ambient noises, a killer bassline, and a hypnotic keyboard riff – and no choruses.

Impossible to pigeonhole, but also impossibly cool.

Chorus by Mildlife drops via Heavenly Recordings.

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