Micko & The Mellotronics Unveil New Album “The Trinity”

Micko & The Mellotronics have today returned with their third full length, The Trinity, that is now available via Landline Records. The Trinity strikes a balance between the ambiguous and the definitive, onically the record shifts from track to track and place to place moving between ’70s new wave to more modern influences with a variety of shades in between, somehow retaining a thematically consistent voice. Lyrically it draws on mid-life experience, reflections on childhood in Leeds, UK and politics with a small “p”. Micko was inspired by a former art tutor’s paintings, which would later become the cover artwork. The frontman was drawn to his images of children’s TV show character Sooty mysteriously surrounded by deities, conjuring ideas of rebirth, recovery and an excavation of the past. The Trinity mixes those heavier themes with explorations of growing up, the album was also made while Micko was supporting his mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, which became the dominant backdrop. 

The album was recorded at home with contributions from Paul Cuddeford (Boomtown Rats) on lead guitar & E bow who augmented Micko’s compositions and contributed towards arrangements. The dynamic rhythm section is provided by the inventive yet solid Budge Magraw and Jan Noble (both ex-Cesarians). Other performances across the album come from Arnulf Lindner (Ed Harcourt / Richard Ashcroft) who contributes a magnificent string arrangement to When I’m Dead, and Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey) who brings the record to a mystical climax with the outro to Mystery of the Night.

“‘The Trinity’ is a special record for me, as I found myself pushing further into the writing and the mysterious characters that inhabit the songs as a refuge, in order to remain afloat rather than adrift as the unstable moorings of family past became ever more present.” (frontman Micko Westmoreland)