On The Rise: Mildred Maude

Beautiful chaos.

"There aren’t really any rules other than that our core is guitar, bass and drums” say Cornish trio Mildred Maude. It's a statement that befits their simple but compelling output. New album , a bastion for reverb and the home of 2020 favourites bdrmm, Mildred Maude are a band who fully embrace their personal anomalies and wield them as a powerful expressive force.

"We found we shared a kind of DIY ethic in that we knew our music didn’t quite fit in and we just had to put ourselves forwards for things - that’s how after just three gigs we had already played with The Fall and Lorelle Meets The Obsolete."

Although they credit Stereolab, Can, Butthole Surfers, Yo La Tengo and Sun Ra (among others) as influences, there is a real sense of organic architecture to these songs as they play out in an endless wash of blissful energy that rises and falls and engulfs. If it's immersive euphoria you seek, look no further.

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We're excited to announce Mildred Maude as part of Rough Trade On The Rise, a new curation putting a spotlight on the emerging music we are the most excited for you to hear, to follow and become a fan of. Read on to discover more about the band in their own words, check out their exclusive playlist and don't forget to

Mildred Maude are Matt, Lee and Louie.

Mildred Maude on Mildred Maude

A self-penned bio

Mildred Maude was formed primarily as a means for us all to just make some kind of noise in a room once a week. We were all coming from quite different places: Lee was in his early 40s and had just been given the all clear from a cancer which he'd been told would most likely kill him; Matt was in his early 30s, had just moved to Cornwall and was trying to establish himself in the DIY art and music scenes of Falmouth/Penryn; and I (Louie) was 20 and had not long left home, moving to Falmouth from the tiny Cornish town of St Just. Somehow we all ended up in a room together with instruments and for two years we just had completely freeform jam sessions where we'd play for hours (often without stopping) until it got to the stage where we'd sort of settled on a "thing" we could do and that it'd be nice to maybe play a gig one day.

It took us a long time to convince anyone to give us a gig, but eventually we managed to blag our way onto a bill... then one thing led to another and somehow our third gig ended up being with The Fall, then we recorded an album at Sawmills Studio which ended up getting released on vinyl... we also had Damo Suzuki as our singer for an evening... eventually we started playing out of county and, subsequently, met some great people and had some great experiences... and somehow we've ended up here! We're super thrilled to be working with Sonic Cathedral to release our second record, it's quite surreal for us to be in this position considering where we started but I guess sometimes things just... come together!