Milo Greene

107.7 The End & The Crocodile PresentMilo Greenewith BahamasMilo Greene is not real. However, the fictitious character that is Milo Greene is very much alive. His makers perceive him as an intellectual entrepreneur. In his poised and dignified manner, he keeps things close to the vest and lets everyone know whos boss. He is exactly the type of man you would want to represent you in any business venture and that is exactly why he was created.In the DIY music world, having proper representation is… Show more key. Lacking an actual manager, college classmates Andrew Heringer, Robbie Arnett, and Marlana Sheetz concocted a virtual one Milo Greene to promote their individual musical efforts. It wasnt until 2009 that the three began creating music together. While house sitting in the isolated Northern California foothills, the trio wrote and recorded a handful of songs. Seeking a name for their new venture, they thought it only natural to pay tribute to the fake manager/booking agent that had represented them throughout their college years: Milo Greene.We had no TV, no Internet, we had a fire going, and we had to hush the dogs, Arnett says, acknowledging that the environment probably accounted for their musics pastoral feel, as well as its meticulous attention to detail. Sheetz concurs: Every place weve made music has been isolated, and it has certainly helped us focus.Milo Greenes formal recording sessions for their self-titled debut with co-producer Ryan Hadlock (Ra Ra Riot, Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, The Lumineers) followed suit; they took place at Bear Creek Studio, a converted circa-1900 barn in the country near Seattle.Milo Greene is a collection of voices that live and breathe simultaneously with the breadth of an omniscient, collective consciousness. The melodies invoke long drives down the California coast and the feeling of leaving home. There is something meditative about it, as though it asks to be listened to alone and given ones full attention. Guitar lines swell and recede as ocean waves would. A slight dissonance can be sensed underneath a seemingly passive exterior; a tension can be found in passing tones that evoke jazz harmony and the sense of waiting for something really big to happen, a sense of growing inevitably older while grasping at the threads of youth.The themes explored on Milo Greenes Chop Shop/Atlantic Records debut are timeless: a quest for permanence, a longing for virtue, a need for reciprocity in all that is good, like on the albums first single, the enchanting 1957. When, when, when were older / Can I still come over? the band asks in Silent Way, looking hopefully into the future. Its a future less daunting when faced with the strong bond imagined in the song Dont You Give Up on Me, with its solemn vow Ill go wherever you go.Those songs, along with the embraceable Autumn Tree and Cutty Love embody the simple notion that, not unlike the way the quintet makes music, we are all in this together. We all long to be comforted and secure, Arnett says. If our music sounds nostalgic, its for the times in our lives we felt that way. If we sound hopeful, its because we want to feel that way again.Says Fink: Were all in our 20s, but were all coming to this band after living out other musical dreams. Were still young enough to be wide-eyed, but experienced enough to know how special this group is.Their fictitious character, Milo Greene, is British, they muse, and well versed in art and history, with eclectic tastes in music. The kind of guy who wears a three-piece suit even when its hot, and has a record player in every room.

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