Mildred - Fenceline [Amber Vinyl]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: MODD03LPUK
Barcode: 5055869552745
Release Date: 18 Sep 2026
Genre: Alternative

For Fans Of: Naima Bock, Silver Jews ,Bill Callahan, Big Thief, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Pavement, MJ Lenderman, Silver Jews, Parquet Courts, Bill Callahan, Alex G, Dutch Interior, This Is Lorelei.
A new vinyl pressing of the sold out debut album from Mildred. The album came out originally in April and sold out 500 LPs (350 via a Dinked LP) and 200 CDs.
The new pressing is on Amber vinyl and is for Indie stores only, stock is again very limited, 100 only.

Speaking of ‘Fish Sticks’ and the album, Mildred say: “Fish Sticks is a song of scenes from two worlds. Conversations with your boss. Acute workplace mediocrity. Riding home and eating fish sticks with your friends. For UK audiences, a fish stick is a fish finger, ideally Alaskan-caught cod. The song comes packaged in Fenceline, an album about conversations with old friends, little cousins, ceaseless piles of dust in your crumbling duplex, loves and theologians and their books. Fencelines mark two places but belong to neither. Neither nor, either or.”

Ahead of Fenceline, at the end of last year Mildred released their debut twin EPs mild and red, an insatiable collection of songs birthed before Mildred even knew they were a band. Arriving purposefully on the scene in that gentle, approachable Mildred way, the EPs picked up support from The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, Uncut (‘We’re New Here’), The New Cue, Clash, DIY and more.

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 that make 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. The songs are often wrestled from the lead writer by the other three, a lyric might have been mumbled absentmindedly for a few days before one of the other three grabs at it.

Summed up neatly by Clash “imagine if Pavement went Americana and you’d be close”, Mildred make music that is pure and poetic, gently addictive and never overwrought.

The lyrics for their songs are written largely alone and often draw from their own individual lives and experiences but there’s a shared something there. “It makes sense when common threads emerge” they say, “because we do things together a lot as friends: cook, laze about on a weekend, listen to an album, go walkabout, read, go see movies etc.

Strikingly literal or intriguingly oblique, Mildred have a remarkable way with lyrics that lodge themselves in your head softly but with such determination that they begin to feel like shimmering memories from your own life. Fenceline is a collection of songs that you want to hold close and delve into, and yet play to everyone you know.

Press Quotes

“One of the year’s most endearing and disarming indie rock records” Pitchfork

"Outstanding debut from Californian four-piece” 9/10 Uncut

“Mildred quietly lay the foundations of their own glowing world” 4/5 Mojo

“A poetic commentary on the isolation and malaise of modernity” 8/10 Pop Matters

“The thing that lifts Mildred’s album a little higher than most is the quality of the words” 8/10 Americana UK

“One of 2026’s most endearing sleepers” Uproxx

“Songs so strong and fundamentally enjoyable that you can’t help but listen to it in sequence” Aquarium Drunkard

“Excellent new record” GoldFlakePaint

“Brilliant debut record” The New Cue

"The cohesive sessions saw the band – four singers, four songwriters – operating as a single unit, resulting in something enriching" Clash

“Singing and telling stories about loneliness, love, and the future, mildred already sound wonderfully coherent and blissfully content” Beats Per Minute

"Fenceline is just a pleasure to spend time with" 84% Spectrum Culture

“Transforms the overlooked into the unforgettable” Atwood

"Fenceline captures Mildred at the point where scattered scenes, relationships, and half-formed ideas coalesce into something quietly assured" Whynow

Tracklisting:

1. UPS Brown
2. Fish Sticks
3. Charlie
4. Cobwebs
5. Fenceline
6. Fleet Week
7. Aquinas
8. Mumblecore Melody
9. Pitch Boats
10. Hardcore of Beauty