Milk Teeth do it better at Reading 2016

Sometimes, the important bands aren’t the most showy. They’re not the ones with the bravado - the look at me attention seeking or extravagant image to maintain. Sometimes, they’re just brilliant in their own way, pushing their talent as far as they can, bringing whoever cares to join along on the ride. That’s the Milk Teeth tactic, and in its own way it’s pretty damn spectacular. It’s not just the fact they’ve got banger after banger in their back pocket - though they’ve got a pile of them to drop today, able to pick a relative greatest hits set only one album in. It’s the fact they stand for something. And not just something. Pretty much everything decent. Before ‘Kabuki’ Becky Blomfield makes a plea to “normalise mental health and make it less of taboo”. An important plea as others try to promote their forthcoming live dates, new releases and general gubbins. It’s not that everyone else is a rotter - that’s not the point at all - it’s just that Milk Teeth are brilliant inside and out.