Tales Of Never Letting Go

When I first got into hardcore and started going to shows in Boston, there was a band named Only Living Witness that would often be on the bill and I saw them a number of times in 1991 and 1992. I bought their Complex Man 7 inch at a show, and enjoyed it, but my taste was rapidly changing at the time and before too long OLW was "too metal" for me. I lost track of the band after that, and completely missed when they broke up and the singer, Jonah Jenkins, started up a new band with Miltown.

Miltown didn't even cross my radar until Marcus mentioned them to me in 2016. The band had released a 7 inch in 1996 and a split with Cast Iron Hike in 1997, and I there I was 20 years after their release hunting them down and obsessing over the new found discovery. Now almost ten years after I first heard those Miltown records, I guess there was more to discover.

Back at the end of 1997, Miltown went into the studio and recorded an album, but then shortly after that, they broke up. I guess they weren't interested enough at the time to get the songs released, so the tapes just sat on a shelf. Thankfully someone recently had the thought to finally release this to the public almost 30 years later. When Marcus sent me a message to let me know that preorders were up for the long lost Miltown album, I was excited to quickly get one into my cart and check out.

It's crazy that things like this can sit around for years just collecting dust. Tales Of Never Letting Go is so good that I can't believe that it took this long to get released. The perfect melodic post-hardcore groove that I can't get enough of from that mid to late 90's era.

297 pressed on glacier blue colored vinyl.