Music: The Milk – One of many brilliant acts at this year’s Love Supreme festival

Retro-leaning but one who have found their groove, The MIlk released one of the albums of 2015 in the form of ‘Favourite Worry’, which was made with the help of The Bee’s Paul Butler. “He is Captain Analogue,” says Ricky Nunn, singer and guitarist. “It was a sixteenth century barn with original stone walls and timber frames, that he had turned into an amazing studio with a live room. It was the most beautiful recording experience any of us could have wished for. It was intimidating, but in a good way, that we had a producer who could play
all the instruments as well as, sometimes better, than we can.
“We wanted to make something like a film soundtrack, we wanted tunes that sounded like they could have come from a movie. ‘Taxi Driver’ was one of our references, not in terms of the story, but the amazing soundtrack (Bernard Hermann).”
Formed by four childhood friends in Essex, it took a while before they found their way to soul and funk. “We were ****ing around in the practice rooms at school, initially doing Beatles covers and simple four chord stuff, and it grew from there. We’re like conjoined twins, we don’t know any different now. We’ve grown around each other musically. We had to get rid of that teenage angst phase. But after five or six years, we started playing what we were listening to, the cleaner end of soul, the Stax, Atlantic and Motown soul of the 60s and 70s, and now with a tiny bit of afrobeat and jazz. We now like making dark soul funk records.”
Love Supreme, 1-3 July. www.lovesupremefestival.com