Biography
Mild High Club operates as a psychedelic pop outfit fronted by Alexander Brettin, the Chicago native now based in Los Angeles. Their music blends an easygoing, hazy warmth with precise sonic choices that avoid excess. The project first surfaced via the 2015 album Timeline, followed the next year by the more expansive Skiptracing and the 2017 joint effort Sketches of Brunswick East alongside King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Brettin later spent extra time shaping the group’s fourth record, Going Going Gone, which surfaced in 2021.
Brettin launched the Mild High Club project in 2012, working solo with guitars, keyboards, computers, and a four-track recorder while moving among Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles. During those travels he connected with musicians nationwide, several of whom added parts to his recordings and performed with him onstage. The act joined Stones Throw late in 2014, and the 7" single “Windowpane” appeared on the label in early 2015. Timeline, the debut full-length, followed later that year on Stones Throw’s new Circle Star Records imprint. Skiptracing, the more ambitious second album, arrived on Stones Throw in 2016. Early the following year Brettin partnered with Australian psych explorers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, traveling to their Flightless HQ studios in East Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia, where he and Stu Mackenzie sketched initial ideas before the full band joined to complete them. Issued by ATO in mid-2017, Sketches of Brunswick East merged soft rock, psych-pop, and cosmic jazz. After an extended pause, Mild High Club resurfaced in 2021 with Going Going Gone, a set that touched on paranoia, gun violence, and climate change.
Brettin launched the Mild High Club project in 2012, working solo with guitars, keyboards, computers, and a four-track recorder while moving among Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles. During those travels he connected with musicians nationwide, several of whom added parts to his recordings and performed with him onstage. The act joined Stones Throw late in 2014, and the 7" single “Windowpane” appeared on the label in early 2015. Timeline, the debut full-length, followed later that year on Stones Throw’s new Circle Star Records imprint. Skiptracing, the more ambitious second album, arrived on Stones Throw in 2016. Early the following year Brettin partnered with Australian psych explorers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, traveling to their Flightless HQ studios in East Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia, where he and Stu Mackenzie sketched initial ideas before the full band joined to complete them. Issued by ATO in mid-2017, Sketches of Brunswick East merged soft rock, psych-pop, and cosmic jazz. After an extended pause, Mild High Club resurfaced in 2021 with Going Going Gone, a set that touched on paranoia, gun violence, and climate change.
Albums
Singles
