Yourcodenameis:milo look back on 20 years of Steve Albini-produced cult debut ‘All Roads To Fault’
nme.comYourcodenameis:milo have spoken to NME about the 20th anniversary of their cult classic debut mini album ‘All Roads To Fault’, what’s next – and working with the late, great Steve Albini.Released on this day in 2004 (May 10), ‘All Roads To Fault’ by the Tyne and Wear post-hardcore outfit would go to inspire scores of rock acts from the UK and beyond and finding fans in the likes of The 1975 and My Chemical Romance.
The release us now known asone of the most influential rock releases of the decade.The band released two acclaimed follow-up albums before they went on an “indefinite hiatus” in 2007 – with frontman Paul Mullen going on to join The Automatic as well as forming Young Legionnaire and Losers, and guitarist Justin Lockey launching a range of projects as well as becoming a full-time member of Editors and Frightened Rabbit side-project Mastersystem.
YCNI:M reunited for a string of reunion shows last year, with more hopefully on the horizon.Speaking to NME, the band explained how the 20th anniversary of ‘All Roads To Fault’ was made all the more profound by the passing of the EP’s producer Steve Albini this week.“I had no idea this record was 20 years old,” Lockey told NME. “I some ways I think that’s a really good thing, as it means I’m not stuck there still in a time where I was a different person, more naive about the world, the music industry and all that comes with it.
It’s from a different lifetime – but everything I have done in music since has a direct line back to that album. And I love that.”Lockey explained how the mini album was “a very true reflection of a band who had a hunger, an insanely ordered and strong work ethic, and didn’t really fit in”.“Back then, we fell in between the two camps of, ‘Are you.
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