Mild Horses Released New EP

Mild Horses, the ever-evolving project of British musician Matthew Leuw, returns with Grime’s Graves, a kaleidoscopic EP that marks the band’s first release in nearly a year. True to form, the collection is as curious as it is genre-defying — a heady mix of experimental jazztronica, electronic textures, and Krautrock-inspired rhythms, including a track that muses, obliquely, on the nuanced roles of football midfielders.

Leuw, a veteran of the UK’s underground music scene, has spent decades refining his idiosyncratic sound. From the melodic chaos of Norwich noise-poppers Crest to the angular attack of Brighton’s Coin-op and the electro-pop eccentricity of 2 Hot 2 Sweat, his musical past has always skewed toward the artfully unconventional. Mild Horses synthesizes these influences into something looser, more meditative — and often more surreal.

The new EP follows 2021’s Ignorance to Enlightenment and Back Again and 2023’s Return to Dust, both of which established the project’s fluid blend of lo-fi aesthetics, psychedelic wanderings, and experimental grit. With Grime’s Graves, Leuw continues to embrace sonic ambiguity, resisting definition while drawing listeners deeper into his fractured, oddly beautiful sound world.