Miki Berenyi Trio announces the release of their debut album Tripla. The LP will drop on April 4 via Bella Union. The trio is a new beginning, a new-line-up, which Miki Berenyi (Lush), KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer. Along with the news, the band have shared a video by Sébastien Faits-Divers combining live footage filmed in Dijon, France with artwork by Chris Bigg for their lead single “8th Deadly Sin”. The album title describes: acknowledging the mother tongue of Miki’s father, Tripla is Hungarian for triple.

Miki Berenyi Trio have announced a number of upcoming live dates including UK shows as part of Independent Venue Week followed by Rough Trade instore performances in April and a European tour in April and May

Commenting on “8th Deadly Sin” Miki Berenyi says: “Simon Raymonde instantly picked this out as a single and it immediately went down a storm when we played it live. I can’t pretend that I am in a position to lecture others over their green credentials but there’s a broader philosophy in the song that I can relate to – humanity hurtling toward its own destruction, which (to me) applies as much to wars and social intolerance as it does environmental issues.”

Tripla was mixed by Paul Gregory (of Bella Union labelmates Lanterns On The Lake) with artwork by Chris Bigg – who designed the sleeves for Piroshka and contributed to all of Lush’s sleeves – incorporating photography from Martin Andersen. But for all the album’s heightened and sophisticated sound, MB3 have gone back to basics, not only recording at home but driving a car packed with their gear, loading in and out of venues themselves. “There is something very ‘grass roots’ about what we’re doing,” says Miki. “There’s no point following the ‘announce the album, then tour, then record the next album’ route – we just want to wring as much enjoyment out of this as we can, and hope that it resonates somewhere!”

Miki Berenyi Trio
Tripla
tracklist
Bella Union

1. 8th Deadly Sin
2. Kinch
3. Vertigo
4. Gango
5. A Different Girl
6. Big I Am
7. Hurricane
8. Manu
9. Ubique

Pre-order Tripla HERE