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 

Begin Again (2025)

by Millbrig

The first track released in 2025, after a long pause, 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, was released 17 March 2026. It allows Steve to  get loose on electric guitar, and Penny to abandon the traditional folk song structure of 'verse and chorus'. It  contemplates Britain's colonial history, particularly the exploitation by  capitalists as they traded opium, (often romanticised by references to 'The Silk Road'. We therefore call it 'Down Opium Road' Enslavement, whether through British industry overseas (as Amitav Ghosh and David Olusoga explain) or through the destruction of humanity through current drug misuse, is surely, one and the same thing? 

Colour fade (2026)

by Millbrig

Track five, Colour fade, is due for release early April. It is a folky lament, that pivots on the unsettling theme of how dull (black-and-white) everything can look, when things don't go right - or your lover leaves. I think there are many people who sometimes feel they are running on empty...and it has to be said, Millbrig do love a sad song. The lyrics are quite comic/tragic  - for example -  'You took... took what you owed,    and then you took, yourself down the road  ... etc.  This reminds me of the number of times I have got cross with my bank manager, and threatened to take my overdraft 'elsewhere'!