"If you're at all interested in power-pop, Guided by Voices-esque indie rock, or melodic bangers with big guitars and even bigger choruses, you've likely already helped yourself to a nice, tall glass of Liquid Mike. Their back catalog and last year's breakthrough album, Paul Bunyan's Slingshot, speak for themselves. And if you haven't yet quenched your thirst for rock 'n' roll with Liquid Mike, now's as good a time as ever to take that first sip."
"Small-town tales of struggling to figure it all out and globetrotting stories of rock tours alike find their way into these nuggets of pure, guitar-driven goodness. Get Liquid Mike Tickets Here "I think that's probably getting to the heart of a lot of these songs," Liquid Mike songwriter and frontman Mike Maple tells Consequence, "just being stuck in the middle between two things. It's frustrating.""
"Hell Is an Airport arrives just a year-and-a-half after Paul Bunyan's Slingshot, and as Maple tells it, a majority of the record was ready to go long ago. Tunes like "Crop Circles" dropping a full year ago seem to support such claims. "I think that's just the pace that we've set for ourselves at this point," Maple explains. "It's just what we're used to, and things haven't changed that drastically for us. We're still always home... We just record.""
Hell Is an Airport contains 14 concise tracks lasting 77 to 169 seconds, delivering guitar-driven power-pop and indie rock with big choruses. The songs combine small-town narratives about struggling to figure things out with globetrotting tour stories, packaged as punchy, earworm jams. A recurring theme centers on being stuck between two things and the frustration that creates. The record follows Paul Bunyan's Slingshot by about eighteen months, with much of the material prepared earlier and singles like "Crop Circles" surfacing a year prior. The band maintains a rapid, home-based recording pace, prioritizing productivity and steady output.
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