Purple, by Pink Milk

Purple

by Pink Milk

supported by

Dionysos Nyktelios Gloomy, heavy and passionate sound that seems to emerge from someone's deepest, darkest dreams. Dark shoegaze with post punk influences.

The album experience works as a whole; that's why I pick as favorite track the unexpected cover of Foreigner at the end of it. Favorite track: I Want to Know What Love Is.

Kinkyblenderr Indescribable passion in every word sung over haunting melodies and crashing percussion. Favorite track: Muscles.

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

60 SEK or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is the debut album from Pink Milk. Pressed on pink, slightly transparent vinyl.

The album is also available for €19.90 through our distributor Bengans:
www.bengans.eu/en/artiklar/pink-milk-purple.html

Includes unlimited streaming of Purple via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 3 days

edition of 15

199 SEK or more

1.	River Phoenix 02:51		buy track
2.	Muscles 02:36	lyrics	buy track
You've got a darkness Over you I really like it I feel it too I feel it too I wanted more from you baby Yeah I wanted more from you baby Yeah Your hair is bleeding Bleeding softly down your neck I really like it I wanted more I wanted more I wanted more from you baby Yeah I wanted more from you baby Yeah
3.	Detroit 02:47	lyrics	buy track
The night is young but I feel old enough To take off my t-shirt and smoke grass in the night With you With you With you With you You told me you were more Boy than girl And I felt the same Yeah With you With you With you With you
4.	Kill 4 U 02:53	lyrics	buy track
I saw it in your eyes I felt it in your touch No turning back for us No turning back For us Kill 4 U Yeah Kill 4 U I think about you all the time Sometimes I see you when I dream Kill 4 U Yeah Kill 4 U I saw it in your eyes I felt it in your touch I saw it in your eyes I felt it in your touch
5.	LA COP 02:29		buy track
6.	Awakening of Laura 02:47	lyrics	buy track
The passions cuts deep Yeah Into the heart And the muscles still remember you And the body wants more Awakening of Laura And the body wants more Awakening of Laura And I know we can't go home to your mom 'cause she is crazy And I know we can't be seen Together Yeah And the body wants more Awakening of Laura And the body wants more Awakening of Laura The passion cuts deep into the heart And the muscles still remembers you Yeah The passion cuts deep into the heart And the muscles still remember you
7.	Sushi Dreams (Flesh & Blood) 02:52	lyrics	buy track
Wet dreams Wakes me Like a gun Yeah Blowing holes Hold on to me Hold on to me Like flesh and blood Like flesh and blood I felt Your kiss Like a gun Yeah Blowing holes Hold on to me Hold on to me Like flesh and blood Like flesh and blood Yeah I can’t stop think about death With you With you Yeah With you
8.	Drömmens Skepp 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Vårt hav med hatten i silver Drömmande går mot land Ett skepp med blommor kring rodret Syns stäva Mot himlens rand Vindarna vaknar och vänder Vaknar och vänder sig om Vågorna skimrar skimrar Av sång Vindarna vaknar och vänder Vaknar och vänder sig om Vågorna skimrar skimrar Av sång Av sång Av sång Ett skepp som strålar i drömmen Speglar vårt livs förlust Bestrött med skimrande blommor Det nalkas En himmelsk kust Vindarna vaknar och vänder Vaknar och vänder sig om Vågorna skimrar skimrar Av sång Vindarna vaknar och vänder Vaknar och vänder sig om Vågorna skimrar skimrar Av sång Av sång Av sång
9.	Sans Toi 02:52	lyrics	buy track
Jag minns Ett liv utan dig Det var I ett farligt land I en farlig stad Mitt blod Pumpade hårt För att nå Det döda hjärtat Som slutat att slå Slå Slå Slå Mitt blod Pumpade hårt För att nå Det döda hjärtat Som slutat att slå Slå Slå
10.	I Want to Know What Love Is 04:20	lyrics	buy track
I got to take a little time A little time to think things over I better read between the lines In case I need it when I'm older Now this mountain I must climb Feels like the world upon my shoulders Through the clouds I see love shine It keeps me warm as life grows colder In my life There's been heartache and pain I don't know if I can face it again Can't stop now, I've travelled so far Change this lonely life Wanna know what love is I want you to show me Wanna feel what love is I know you can show me Gonna take a little time A little time to look around me Got nowhere left to hide It looks like love has finally found me In my life There's been heartache and pain I don't know if I can face it again Can't stop now, I've travelled so far Change this lonely life I want to know what love is I want you to show me I want to feel what love is I know you can show me Let's talk about love

about

The debut album by Pink Milk.

”A dazzling display of alternative rock music”
”Purple is the best album released in many years” – GAFFA (6 out of 6 stars)

”This small band has produced one of the most consistently great post-punk albums of the year.” – The Independent

”‘Purple’ as an album is a heady mix of everything that was right about shoegaze and stoner- rock.” – Hear Me Raw

”Cocteau Twins, The Cure and Joy Division as modern shoegaze. The duo Pink Milk creates a perfect soundscape with echoes, thundering drums and wailing guitars. The framing is as dark as Ingmar Bergman's "Trilogy of Faith", but in a strange way it produces a hopeful salvation in the bleak and gloomy. – Swedish paper Borås Tidning (4 out of 5 stars)

”A devilish congregation of swirling shoegaze guitars, beats that shake the foundation of time, howling, windswept drones, and vocals laced with barbed wire” – The Line Of Best Fit

”Strangely addictive” – London on the inside

”stunning shoe gaze that has me daydreaming about summers past spent in Cheshire fields, Stockholm and Berlin” – Kerry Flint

”A fluid, loose, almost drunken drawl that you can imagine playing in the background of one of those misty bar scenes in Twin Peaks” – Wonderland

”Too loud, to the point of no return, burrowed beneath the sheer incessant noise is an almighty, fucked-up pop song” – DIY

”A remarkable, striking work” – Clash

”It sounds absolutely incredible!” – Kerrang! Radio

”If this wasn’t recorded in an aircraft hangar then we’ll be amazed. It’s suitably huge and dreamy but underneath the dense fog is a quality song.” – Shortlist

”Pink Milk have created a completely unique and refreshing sound that reminisces long forgotten 80s movies but the band are unlikely to find themselves as easily forgettable any time soon.” – Music News Today

"On the surface, the debut album Purple is dark, gloomy and claustrophobic, but after a couple of listenings, a looming seducing light appears. I have never experienced any kind of Godly presence, but I imagine that the sound of "LA COP" is heard in the back when the image of the savior presents itself at the end of the tunnel.” - HYMN

”This is a perfect soundtrack to the autumn darkness" – The Music Guide in Swedish national radio P3

credits

released October 20, 2017

Produced & recorded by Pink Milk
Mixed by Pink Milk except track 3 and 10 mixed by Niels Nielsen and Pink Milk
Mastered by Niels Nielsen at The Fox Den

Music by Maria & Edward Forslund, lyrics by Maria Forslund except:
I Want to Know What Love Is – written by Mick Jones (Somerset Songs / PRS)
Drömmens Skepp – written by Bo Setterlind / Staffan Percy (Copyright Controlled / STIM)

Album cover artwork by Maria Forslund
© & ℗ 2017 Black Hair Records

license

about

Pink Milk Sweden

Hailing from Sweden, Pink Milk is a duo making occult music inspired by the 80s. The band started their career in 2015 and quickly gained attention for their originality and extreme soundscape. Since then, they have toured Scandinavia and Europe, been invited to SXSW and released three acclaimed albums that got nominated for several awards including the Swedish P3 Gold and Gaffa award. ... more

contact / help

Contact Pink Milk

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Pink Milk, you may also like:

Odes to the Void
by Life on Venus

supported by 10 fans who also own “Purple”

Such a dreamy, ethereal and haunting sound. It's shoegaze perfection with the added bonus of great lyrics. This is one album in constant rotation - never falls off. Dartmouth Diva 🌟
go to album
Careful
by Boy Harsher

supported by 9 fans who also own “Purple”

Consistently good tracks - great album! tofupotpie
go to album
Radiogaze
by Blankenberge

supported by 9 fans who also own “Purple”

Absolutely beautiful from start to finish. yoyoman1
go to album
Another Autumn Day (Reissue with Bonus Tracks)
by Shadowplay

A killer re-release of a rare solo post-punk LP from 1988 by the frontman of Taste of Decay and Garden of Pleasures. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 17, 2022
go to album
Forgive Yourself
by Publicist UK

Blood Relative is Publicist's latest post-punk salvo from the Forgive Yourself LP, steered by Zachary Lipez's unnerving baritone. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 17, 2015
go to album
Our Chemistry is a Tightrope
by porcupine

Hopscotching from jangle pop and post-hardcore to math rock and shoegaze, these Minnesota rockers have a gift for musical multitasking. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 29, 2024
go to album
Linea Aspera LP II
by Linea Aspera

supported by 9 fans who also own “Purple”

Thank you for the second album. Got all three now on Bandcamp and they inspire me so much. Kids in school, then work, and kids back from school - then baths and homework - AND FINALLY a bit of time in my cobbled together mini studio in my one bedroom flat. YOU inspire me to make the effort to make all that stuff work. Sentient Helicopters
go to album