Mildred

Mildred is a band from Oakland, CA of four equal parts. They don't have a lead singer, no one person writes the songs. The songs thatmake up Fenceline come together as a group with their genesis sprouting from any one of their members - Henry Easton Koehler(vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or Will Fortna (drums, production) - each time. Thesongs are often wrestled from the lead writer by the other three, a lyric might have been mumbled absentmindedly for a few days before oneof the other three grabs at it. If you ask any Mildred member what their favourite part of Fenceline is, it will never be something theywrote. If you pin them down and ask them what their favourite part of something they did write was, it will always be something somebodyelse added to it. This is what makes Mildred - in many ways a timeless four piece - so special. This wonderfully easy bond between four friends just hangingout and writing songs is so palpable its intoxicating. Summed up neatly by Clash Magazine saying, "imagine if Pavement wentAmericana and you'd be close", Mildred make music that is pure and poetic, gently addictive and never overwrought. They describe thecreation of the band as being born from "deciding that playing/talking about/thinking about music together is fun and something we want tostructure our lives around as best we can". Mildred is a vehicle for these four people to continue to spend time in each other's company.Most bands are formed so they can get out of whatever diy space they start out playing in, Mildred was formed so they can spend moretime there.