“I think about death all the time.”
Almost ironic for someone called Brendan Dyer. Principal songwriter and singer of the indie rock, shoegaze band MILLY, Dyer lays his hushed vocals over a bed of heavy guitar riffs while singing about both love and death. In their freshly released third LP "Your Own Becoming" (Dangerbird Records, 2024), the LA-based rock band exploits the benefits of weekly hangouts and daily walks to create ten powerful tracks, fueled by the desire to use one's darkest thoughts as a productive means. "Bittersweet Mary" brings mystery and love in a haunting record.
“This song was actually co-written in a song trade with my close friend, Dan Poppa (People I Love, Waveform*)" shares Dyer. “I ended up taking his song and changing up the lyrics and writing a whole second part. Bittersweet Mary was his title and it’s a song about mystery and magic and love and death. Yarden does his first ever scream at the end of the song before the guitar solo brings it all home. It’s a triumphant and powerful song — anthemic like the goal of a lot of these.”
Check it out now.
- Lio
