Liquid Mike Announce Hell Is An Airport, Share Two Tracks

Last January, Michigan power pop band Liquid Mike scored a Paste Pick with their album Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot, a song featuring “American Caveman,” which landed on our list of the 100 best songs of 2024. In September, they released the singles “Man Lives,” “Man Dies,” and “Crop Circles,” all of which I really loved. “Crop Circles” was especially a favorite, thanks to its big-time guitars and head-splitting hooks. Now, the Midwesterners are back with a fresh LP: Hell Is An Airport, set to arrive September 12.

Liquid Mike bandleader Mike Maple, who sings like he’s filling stadiums, says of the album, “Airports are these weird, intermediary spaces that have always made me feel like I’m stuck in limbo. This album deals a lot with themes surrounding feeling stuck and unable to crawl out. Airports are stressful and congested and bureaucratic and never sleep; I imagine hell operates very much like an airport.”

Listen to lead singles “Groucho Marx” and “Selling Swords” and check out the Hell Is An Airport artwork and tracklist below.