Album | Micko & The Mellotronics: The Trinity

Micko & The Mellotronics

The Trinity

Landline Records

CD | LP | DL available here

out 12 June 2026

Follow up to 2023’s Le Vice Anglais and the third album by the London-based art-pop band built around Micko Westmoreland and his songwriting. The best of the trilogy or just more curious, literate works of idiosyncratic genius? Ged Babey decides. 

This is a fantastic album.

It’s the best album that Micko and co have released. Each one has seen subtle improvements on the last. It’s one of those albums which is a cohesive whole – ironically, despite having no less than six ‘single’ tracks available in the lead up to release.

It’s like Coming Up, Dirk Wears White Sox,  Ziggy Stardust, Elastica’s or The Smiths eponymous debuts, the Correct Use of Soap, any of your favourite albums where every single song hits the spot. (I’m not gonna say ‘all killer/no filler’ because that is a cliché, but I just did and in this case it’s true.)

The guitars on this album just gleam: jagged but fluid, sharp yet tuneful. The rhythm section are solid, muscular yet lithe. No song outstays its welcome.  Precision and conciseness are Micko’s trademark.  And of course his lyricism.

“Now I’m dead, I’m hovering above you…” is one of the most striking lines in one of the songs. Always semi-autobiographical as his work is, this album goes from songs about childhood, adolescence and dealing with family disfunction, right through to having a parent with Alzheimer’s and an imagined afterlife taking stock.

Half of the album LTW has covered already: Nigel Carr reviewed the single Parked Car calling it…. another slice of Mickodelia with a beautiful Sixties’ Barry Gray style vibe running through it.  Iain Key wrote about Proper Job  – a retro glam anthem, and Would You Believe It – a spikey guitar driven number with one foot in the post punk / new wave era, accompanied by a black and white video punctuated with the occasions splash of colour. Wayne Carey reviewed Shadow  which dives into Jungian psychology and I reviewed  Guilty  – the Ruth Ellis song – and for some reason everyone insisted I cover Misery Guts .- another of Westmorelands character studies in song. Human behaviour and disfunction under his microscope set to a nippy tune… [read full review here]