Amidst today’s deluge of genreless streaming bait, Liquid Mike are a refreshing splash of tonic.
Since unknowingly bursting onto the scene in 2021, Mike Maple and company have continued to self-produce power-pop gold at a freakish rate that’s typically reserved for Guided By Voices. Hell Is an Airport is Liquid Mike’s fifth full-length since 2021 and first following last year’s well-documented breakthrough. They’re still breaking out of their own self-destructive cycles. But even though the adjustments on their new album are minor, this band of Midwest workhorses keep firing on all cylinders.
Maple recently quit his job delivering the daily mail, but that hasn’t changed how Liquid Mike operates. Hell Is an Airport was recorded,…