| The Miller's Daughter | |
| Type: | Compilation |
| Artist: | The Drones |
| Cover: | Drones-tmd.jpg |
| Released: | 2005 |
| Recorded: | 1999–2004 |
| Studio: | Atlantis Studios (Melbourne) |
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| Label: | Fuse Records (Australia) Bang! Records (UK/Europe) |
| Producer: | Locki Lockwood Gareth Liddiard The Drones |
| Prev Title: | Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Gala Mill |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
The Miller's Daughter is a compilation album released by Perth band The Drones. The album compiles outtakes from the band's first two full-length releases (Here Come the Lies and Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By) and their first few non-album singles.
Of the album, Liddiard said:
"This isn't really an outtakes or b-side record...its just that when we recorded 'Here Come The Lies' and 'Wait Long By The River' we did them six months apart and we had a huge pile of songs....those two records were both really long and we had to ditch some of the stuff we were doing to keep them reasonably timed....most of the stuff is recorded straight up live in the studio....so basically if I f--ked up a lyric it didn't go on the record. we didn't have the time or money or patience to correct anything....all I can remember about these sessions is just being tired and drunk and hoarse and broke and way too loud for a recording studio...it seems like 20 years ago. But I really like this record...it's got everything I like about rock n roll in there so I'm totally cool with it..... even though it's a little messy and rushed. Lots of people think we are s--t and I hope this makes them think we are even worse after hearing it cause we are just doing our thing and doing a thorough job of it......I hate to sound trite but this is what we think punk sounds like you know??? and any band worth anything knows that you are just there take what you think is most valuable in good music and then show it to everybody... kinda pervert it a little to suit... then you try to enjoy it more than everyone else."[1]
In the record liner notes, Liddiard provides the following quoted descriptions for each song:[2]
The album was released through Fuse Records in Australia and through the Spanish label Bang! Records (that specializes in similar punk blues recordings from Australia and the U.S.) in Europe.[3] It was also released as a limited (500 copies) vinyl edition and includes an extra track, a cover of "Well Well Well" by John Lennon.[4]
The German punk zine Ox-Fanzine reviewed the album on their 64th issue, published in early 2006. The reviewer Claus Wittwer scored the album a 9/10, calling it "much better [...] wilder and more rampant" than the band's previous releases from whose sessions most of these outtakes were culled, calling the vocals "emotionally charged and highly explosive [...] Frontman Gareth Liddiard seems to live what he sings."[5] The Aquarian Weekly wrote that the band's "misbegotten third album, [...] offered menacingly provocative fare such as audacious fetus-scraping lampoon, “She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For.”"[6] Everett True described the "deranged" title track as "a Mercy Seat for the noughties"[7] whilst God Is in the TV called it "mercurial" and "majestic".[8]
All songs written by the Drones, except where noted.[9]
[*] Included only on limited edition vinyl release.[10]