Members of The Black Angels, Elephant Stone, The Horrors, and The Earlies Reveal MIEN Project

It started with a song; The Association’s sitar-laced “Wantin’ Ain’t Gettin'” single, to be specific. Having recently forged a newfound friendship on the road, Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone), and John-Mark Lapham (The Earlies) decided to tackle this particular deep cut.

Something was missing, however; someone, actually—The Horrors’ own Tom Furse. With the keyboardist/producer in place for the trio-turned-quartet’s fledgling side project, all they needed was a name. How about MIEN? Yep, that’ll do. And while their self-titled Rocket Recordings debut was wrapped across several time zones, we’re told to expect a seamless “kaleidoscopic series of atmospheres and excursions whereby the fertile songwriting of the golden age of ‘60s psychedelia is transmitted into a transcendental realm above and beyond the second decade of the 21st century.”

Let’s start with its lead single, which Dhir was kind enough to explain below….