Miki Berenyi Trio Share New Music “Doldrum Days” Forward of “Final Ever North American Tour”
Tripla Out Now through Bella Union; Band Fronted by Former Lush Singer/Guitarist
Sep 22, 2025
Images by Abbey Raymonde
Miki Berenyi Trio—led by the previous singer/guitarist with Nineties shoegaze, dream pop, and Britpop band Lush—launched their debut album, Tripla, in April on Bella Union. Now they’ve shared a brand new tune, “Doldrum Days,” through a music video. It comes forward of what the band is describing as its “final ever North American tour.” Take a look at the tune and tour dates beneath.
Miki Berenyi Trio additionally options Berenyi’s life accomplice KJ “Moose” McKillop (of fellow ’90s shoegazers Moose) and guitarist Oliver Cherer. Martin Andersen directed the “Doldrum Days” video.
Cherer had this to say about “Doldrum Days” in a press launch: “The lyric is concerning the areas between locations the place attention-grabbing issues can occur. The situation is borrowed from Erskine Childers’ novel The Riddle of the Sands, however actually it’s about being misplaced, stranded, unmotivated and bored, and what a doubtlessly fertile or harmful place that may be”.
Of the band’s stance on this being their final North American tour, Berenyi says: “Moose is breaking his no-fly embargo so gig-goers will get to benefit from the full and correct Trio. I’m unhappy to say that the prices concerned in touring Stateside have turn out to be crippling for smaller bands like us, so this shall be our final ever outing in North America. I want we may have coated extra cities, however I’m extremely grateful to the numerous followers who’ve messaged on my socials to say they may make the journey to see us play. We’ll remember to embody a bunch of Lush tracks within the set as a final hurrah and a thanks to long-time followers.”
At present Lush introduced a thirty fifth anniversary reissue of Gala, which was a 1990 compilation of the British band’s early EPs and singles for the American and Japanese markets. The reissue shall be out there on 4AD as a deluxe field set, in addition to through common vinyl, CD, and cassette reissues. Discover all the main points right here.
Learn our new interview with Miki Berenyi Trio on Tripla.
Learn our overview of Tripla.
Tripla consists of the band’s debut single, “Vertigo,” which was launched in Could 2024 and was #1 on our Songs of the Week listing that week. When the album was introduced, they shared one other new tune from it, “eighth Lethal Sin,” through a music video. “eighth Lethal Sin” was additionally one in all our Songs of the Week. The album’s third single, “Massive I Am,” additionally landed on Songs of the Week. Then they shared its fourth single, “Kinch,” additionally one in all our Songs of the Week. After the album was launched, Miki Berenyi Trio teamed up with Lol Tolhurst (previously of The Treatment and likewise of Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee) and his son Grey Tolhurst for the brand new tune “Stranger.”
After Lush, Berenyi was additionally within the band Piroshka, which additionally featured Moose and Cherer. Miki Berenyi Trio (or MB3 for brief) is a full on collaboration between the three members and never only a Berenyi solo undertaking. Tripla is the Hungarian phrase for “triple,” named in a nod to Berenyi’s Hungarian father.
Bella Union is the label based by Simon Raymonde, previously of Cocteau Twins, a band beforehand related to Lush. Bella Union additionally launched the 2 Piroshka albums.
Paul Gregory (of Bella Union labelmates Lanterns on the Lake) combined the album. The album was recorded at dwelling and the trio have additionally taken a DIY method to touring. “There’s something very ‘grass roots’ about what we’re doing,” says Berenyi. “There’s no level following the ‘announce the album, then tour, then report the following album’ route—we simply need to wring as a lot enjoyment out of this as we are able to, and hope that it resonates someplace!”
In 2022, Berenyi launched her acclaimed memoir, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success, and the trio was partially born out of the necessity to carry out at guide occasions.
Berenyi did a joint interview with Australian dream pop artist Hatchie in The ’90s Concern of our print journal, the place she mentioned her memoir and Lush. Purchase a replica straight from us right here.
Pirohska, which additionally featured former Elastica drummer Justin Welch, launched their second studio album, Love Drips and Gathers, in 2021 through Bella Union. Learn our interview with them about it right here.
Pirsoshka additionally contributed to our Covers of Covers album in honor of our twentieth Anniversary, the place they coated Grandaddy’s “The Crystal Lake.” Berenyi was additionally one of many artists on the quilt of our twentieth Anniversary Concern.
Learn our 2015 interview with Lush on Break up.
Learn our 2016 interview with Lush on their reunion.
Learn our 2024 interview with Berenyi on her memoir.
Miki Berenyi Trio 2025 North American Tour Dates:
10/10: Washington DC @ Pearl Road Warehouse
10/11: Brooklyn NY @ Music Corridor of Williamsburg
10/12: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
10/13: Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
10/15: Toronto, ON @ The Nice Corridor
10/16: Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag
10/17: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Corridor
10/18: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Membership
10/20: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
10/21: Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ City Lounge
10/23: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
10/24: Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
10/25: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
10/27: San Francisco, CA @ Nice American Music Corridor
10/28: West Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre
