Thyla tease their new EP: "We go from being fierce to being angry, euphoric, helpless and ecstatic"

We love a new band, Dear Reader. If you’ve been paying attention to our hallowed pages over recent times, you’ll know we’ve long had a rather healthy crush on Thyla. After a short spell ‘away’, they’re back with new material. Kicking off with certified mega-banger ‘Two Sense’, it’s a massive jump up the table for a band already looking like they had title-winning potential. We grabbed hold of vocalist Millie Duthie to find out more.

Hey Millie, how's it going? What's new? Hey Dork readers, we're extremely excited to be back with new music out in the world! What have you guys been up to this year? It feels like it's been ages since we've heard from you, has a lot been going on 'behind the scenes'? After SXSW and some festivals earlier on in the season we decided we needed to make some big decisions with regards to how we were going to progress the band forward, we weren't happy jumping through the hoops set out for us and so decided to take back the reigns. It's been hectic but hugely fulfilling and as a result, has inspired a lot of new music. Tell us about your upcoming EP, what's it about? What inspired it? The shared experience of the past year has brought us all really close together. We wanted our second EP to embody what Thyla is and what it has become. There's so much emotion in the songs, we go from being fierce to being angry; euphoric; helpless; and ecstatic, but what has most excited us is that there is a definite "sound", we can't put what it is that defines it into words, but it's there. When did you first start working on this one, and how did you approach curating the tracklisting? There is a mix of old and brand new on the EP. I remember the four of us discussing which songs to choose; we picked the ones that we thought, together, as a body of work, would best convey what Thyla is.