Photo by Dylan Cox
Honey Motel are a Liverpool quartet who have just unveiled ‘Milk’, the new single delivering indie vibrance in a sonic environment of shimmering diamonds. The track starts out with a lonely vocal, shortly rocketing into bouncy rhythm sections and a bright vocal performance.
Taken from their upcoming EP Motel FM, it lands ahead of a packed summer across festivals from Y Not to Boot to Lakefest. It’s got a sense of tight and authentic, climbing to these harmonic highs but maintaining the rawness of wearing your heart on your sleeve. It surges into new sounds, rising up to euphoria and never really dropping beneath it again.
Sam on guitar explains, “Milk explores the quiet unraveling that happens when you’re unable to open up, especially in moments of emotional low. The song captures the struggle of bottling things up, of feeling detached, numb, and disconnected from the world around you, particularly through the lens of male vulnerability.
Inspired by Freddie’s own experiences, Milk sits in that tension: the fear of speaking, the pressure to keep going, and the subtle cracks that form when you can’t. The lyric “where are the drums” becomes a cry for distraction, a metaphor for the urge to drown out what’s really going on inside, or a question of why life doesn’t feel as effortless as it seems for others. It’s a track about losing grip, quietly, and what it sounds like when no one hears it.”
Never one to shy away from momentum, the band have had glowing critical support across their careers, and seems to gain more traction every time you hear from them. Alongside the recent ‘If You Didn’t Exist’ and performances at The Great Escape, this is Honey Motel at their sharpest to date. So, waste no time booking your stay.
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