I Won’t Reach Out To You Exclusive EP

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.

Like many bands last year, Lansing, Michigans Hot Mulligan put out an LP in 2020 that they didnt get to tour. Next month, theyll release I Wont Reach Out To You, a six-track EP that operates as a response to their 2020 full-length Youll Be Fine, bookended on the first and last tracks by a resounding glance-back at a world that simply doesnt exist anymore.

“Stay home, stay home / You said it wouldnt make a difference whether we could be together or not.

At the start of the EP, those words are a serene, mournful observation, but by the end, theyre a volatile explosion, a group-yelled diagnosis set to thundering guitars, bass, and drums.

These facts also explain Hot Mulligan: a group of shitposting gamers from far reaches of Michigan (and one from Iowa) who became best friends at college and started making music that works through the endless weirdness of growing up in this moment.