To be bored is to inhabit a peculiar stillness, as if the days have set themselves adrift with no shore in sight. In that hush, every moment carries a secret weight: the chance of collapse, or the seed of invention. The mind, denied its usual scaffolding, wanders into treacherous terrain where despair crouches in the tall grass, yet also into luminous clearings where thought reshapes itself. What seems vacant is charged, volatile, and waiting. From such uneasy pause can spring either ruinous withdrawal or a sudden, startling beauty that could not have been summoned by design.
The Miki Berenyi Trio (Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop, and Oliver Cherer) confront this peculiar limbo with their effervescent dream pop single Doldrum Days, taken from their debut album Tripla (its title a nod to the Hungarian word for “triple,” a sly tribute to Berenyi’s father’s native tongue).
Doldrum Days marries Miki Berenyi’s fluttering voice, dreamy guitars, and burbling synths into a vision steeped in joy, anxiety, humour, and grief. Its lyrical core stares directly at a world teetering with environmental collapse, digital solipsism, and the brutality of blunted machismo, yet still lets in a shaft of optimism. Here, the trio does not shy from the midnight reckonings of parenthood (especially the world our children are inheriting) or the ache of loss, but neither do they surrender their laughter.
“The lyric is about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen,” says Ollie. “The scenario is borrowed from Erskine Childers’ novel The Riddle of the Sands, but really it’s about being lost, stranded, unmotivated and bored, and what a potentially fertile or dangerous place that can be.”
The video, directed by long-time art collaborator Martin Andersen, accompanies the song with a hallucinatory collage of fish and a mysterious twirling hand missing its pinky and ring fingers. In the depths of this alt-rock seascape, psychedelia serves as a swirling tidepool of blissful dissociation.
Watch the video for “Doldrum Days” below:
Listen to Doldrum Days below and order the single here.
This October, MB3 returns to North America with Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and the Unreasonables. Their tour begins on October 10 in Washington, DC. But it will also be their last visit.
“Moose is breaking his no-fly embargo so gig-goers will get to enjoy the full and proper Trio,” says Berenyi. “I’m sad to say that the costs involved in touring Stateside have become crippling for smaller bands like us, so this will be our last ever outing in North America. I wish we could have covered more cities, but I’m incredibly grateful to the many fans who have messaged on my socials to say they will make the journey to see us play. We’ll be sure to include a bunch of Lush tracks in the set as a last hurrah and a thank you to long-time fans.”
In short, do not miss this.
Catch the Miki Berenyi Trio live! Tickets are available here.
- 10/10: Washington DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse
- 10/11: Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- 10/12: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
- 10/13: Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
- 10/15: Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
- 10/16: Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag
- 10/17: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
- 10/18: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
- 10/20: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
- 10/21: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
- 10/23: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
- 10/24: Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
- 10/25: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
- 10/27: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
- 10/28: West Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre
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