Key Highlights
- Creative Resurgence & Wormslayer: Reuniting with original organist Jay Darlington revitalised the band. Their new album, Wormslayer, expands their storytelling style and features an ambitious nine-minute title track in three parts.
- Critique of Britpop: Mills remains cynical about the 1990s Britpop tag, dismissing it as a shallow media label that lacked imagination compared to Kula Shaker’s spiritual, concept-driven direction.
- Family & Growing Up Famous: Raised by former Disney star Hayley Mills, he only realised how surreal her child-star youth was while helping write her memoir; he credits having his own family with keeping him grounded outside the entertainment bubble.
- State of the Music Industry: He voiced frustration with streaming algorithms making music unsustainable for new artists and dismissed AI music as overhyped, soulless, and incapable of replacing real talent.
- Live Ambitions: Mills expressed high praise for Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard as ideal tour mates, alongside continuing their visual collaborations with liquid-light artist Lance Gordon.
