Miki Berenyi Trio Share "Kinch," Announce Tour Dates

Miki Berenyi Trio will release their debut album Tripla (BElla Union) this Friday, April 4. Today the group shared the video for the final album cut “Kinch” alongside an official video and announced a North American fall tour. Tickets on sale this Friday. The song brings to life the happy/sad stabs sometimes felt when Miki catches a glimpse of her dad, or Chris (Acland, Lush drummer who died in 1996) in the patchwork of framed photos on their hallway wall. Miki shares, “The lyrics are inspired by love and loss, and how those people never leave you, and how it makes you think about the nature of love.”

Tripla’s richly layered, imaginative, and uniquely slanted strain of dream pop is an often euphoric and sometimes melancholic mix of guitars and electronica, fronted by Miki’s instantly recognizable vocal, overlaid with an often profound and sometimes abrasive or yearning view of the world. From lashing out against macho aggression unleashed by social media types such as Andrew Tate to commenting on human self-destruction spanning social intolerance to sexism to environmental issues, the shoegaze pioneers continue their politically-charged legacy with the new collection.

Miki Berenyi Trio, or MB3 for short, is named after its lead singer – a direct way to convey the presence of the former singer/co-guitarist of Lush, and one of the most instantly recognizable faces of the ‘90s – but the songwriting is entirely a three-way collaboration by Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer, as the album title describes: acknowledging the mother tongue of Miki’s father, Tripla is Hungarian for ‘triple’.

Tripla is completed by a superb mix by Paul Gregory (of Bella Union labelmates Lanterns On The Lake) and beautiful artwork by Chris Bigg – who designed the sleeves for Piroshka and contributed to all of Lush’s sleeves – incorporating photography from Martin Andersen. But for all the album’s heightened and sophisticated sound, MB3 has gone back to basics, not only recording at home but driving a car packed with their gear, loading in and out of venues themselves. “There is something very ‘grassroots’ about what we’re doing,” says Miki. “There’s no point following the ‘announce the album, then tour, then record the next album’ route – we just want to wring as much enjoyment out of this as we can, and hope that it resonates somewhere!”