Hot Mulligan Return with "Pop Shuvit (Hall of Meat, Duh)" from Forthcoming EP I Won't Reach Out to You (Wax Bodega Records)
"Like many bands last year, Lansing, Michigan's Hot Mulligan—the "#1 Hot New Band" per their Facebook page—put out an LP in 2020 that they didn't get to tour. This year, they'll release I Won't Reach Out to You (IWROTY,) a six-track EP that operates as a quasi-response to their 2020 full-length you'll be fine. The EP is bookended on the first and last tracks by a resounding glance-back at a world that, simply, doesn't exist anymore: "Stay home, stay home / You said it wouldn't make a difference whether we could be together or not,'" explains Wax Bodega. Hot Mullian's current line-up includes frontman Nathan "Tades" Sanville, rhythm guitarist Chris Freeman, lead guitarist Ryan "Spicy" Malicsi, and drummer Brandon Blakeley
They're planning to press the IWROTY EP on a bunch of different colors, variants, and limited edition versions of vinyl: 250 Yellow with White Splatter as a Banquet Records Exclusive, 300 Half Blue/Half White for Newbury Comics, 300 Half Blue/Half White, again, for Newbury Comics, 300 Blue, 400 White with Blue, Pink & Yellow Splatter, and 600 Galaxy Blue. It will include tarck titles nearly as great as those of From Under The Cork Tree-era Fall Out Boy, such as "One for The Boy," "Featuring Mark Hoppus," "Losing Days," "Pop Shuvit (Hall of Meat, Duh,)" and "Please, Don't Cry, You Have Swag." We're assuming "Featuring Mark Hoppus" does not, in fact, Feat. Mark Hoppus from blink-182, but who knows, and in our mind, "Pop Shuvit (Hall of Meat, Duh)" is a refernce to the in-game move on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. "Pop Shuvit (Hall of Meat, Duh)" is a fun-loving Pop-punk track with some breakdowns, build-ups, catchy lyrics, electronic bleeps and blips, and, of course, punchy guitar solos. Hot Mulligan's I Won't Reach Out to You is out 5/28 on Wax Bodega Records.