Music

Albums and tracks ...

A little bit about our albums...

Millbrig (2017)

by Millbrig

The first album by Millbrig, is aptly named  Millbrig. Gentle all-original folk songs written and sung mainly by Penny. They have a timeless quality, yet reflect real life's experience. Steve sings Old Soldier, an anti-war song, yet empathising with those badly affected by serving  in conflict.  Song for Syria, could just as easily apply to Ukraine or Gaza, today. Tracks are:

  1. Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger
  2. Time for You
  3. Bound for America
  4. Battlefield
  5. Old Soldier
  6. Shadows of Summer
  7. Strings
  8. The Ferryman
  9. Song for Syria
  10. A Small Ray of Light
  11. Rue the Day 

Planets Collide (2020)

by Millbrig

The second album by Millbrig is Planets Collide. A deeper and moodier exploration of life, through all-original material. Steve turns up the electric guitar sounds, and harmonises, not just equalling but well exceeding Penny's limited vocal ability. We are both proud of the existentialist lyrics which recognise both Scottish and English culture. The American blues genre appears in Southern Railroad Line, but Millbrig never made it to the USA's  East coast for the planned lighthouse tour.  Tracks are:

  1. Planets Collide
  2. Silver Shadows
  3. Respectable
  4. Nova Scotia
  5. Boy at the Fair
  6. Walking the Wire
  7. Shattered
  8. Fairy Tales
  9. English Pride
  10. Parapet
  11. Southern Railroad Line 

New Millbrig album coming out in 2026...

Millbrig update, December 2025

Our third album, Begin Again, is currently in progress. So far there are four released tracks lined up for it (see below) , and we are experimenting with others in the studio. The impediments, as usual, are interference from external sources (aka work) and lack of time - both of which conspire to interrupt our artistic  flow. We may change the name, as acknowledging Britain's imperialist ideology and colonial practices throughout modernity, as Amitav Ghosh and David Olusoga observe, suddenly seems important, and our newest track 'Down Opium Road' acknowledges that...so who knows?!

Begin Again (2025)

by Millbrig

The first track released in 2025, is Begin Again. Yes, there was a long gap before this one, but Millbrig has bounced back with this jaunty little, almost sixties, number. Thanks to Christabel Wells, down in Bristol, for her hip artwork! The track is about not being beaten down by life, even when the system persists in trying to dis-empower you. 

The Lighthouse Song (2025)

by Millbrig

The second track released in 2025, is The Lighthouse Song. Penny re-produced an old pen and ink print for the artwork, and her drawing reflects the history of industrial expansion. The song has a nautical theme, which somehow acts as a metaphor for navigating human relationships. If you listen carefully, you can hear some Morse code, so many thanks to Dr Stephen C. Phillips for transposing Penny's lyrics into this medium.

Footsteps (2025)

by Millbrig

The third track, Footsteps, released Autumn 2025 is suitably dark and witchy, reflecting how the human imagination can distort in the early hours before dawn, becoming uncannily close to Nature. There are multiple instances where heavier rock music  indicates  that Millbrig feet are either walking in a new musical direction, or returning to a rockier past... and the surreal hauntings of gothic horror. 

Down Opium Road (2026)

by Millbrig

The fourth track Down Opium Road, due for release March 2026,  is a licence for Steve to finally get loose on his electric guitars, and for Penny to abandon traditional song structure of verse and chorus. It leaves one dreaming of Britain's history, particularly the exploitation by  capitalists as they developed the 'opium trade' (often Romanticised by calling it 'The Silk Road'). Enslavement, whether through industry overseas (as Amitav Ghosh and David Olusoga explain) or through the everyday destruction of humanity through drug misuse, is surely, one and the same thing? 

Millbrig

Always busy with  work-in-progress...


Laterz - Penny x