Mildred have announced their debut album Fenceline, set for release on 24th April 2026.
Formed in Oakland, California, the band also maintain strong ties to the London scene, having played key early shows at venues including the Windmill in Brixton and the Shacklewell Arms. Those formative years saw Mildred release two EPs, mild and red, documents of a band finding momentum.
That sense of acceleration now comes fully into focus on Fenceline, which arrives via Memorials of Distinction and Dog Day Records. Lead single ‘Fish Sticks’ is out now, offering a first look at the album’s observational, quietly off-kilter world.
Speaking about the track, the band explain:
“‘Fish Sticks’ is a song of scenes from two worlds. Conversations with your boss. Acute workplace mediocrity. Riding home and eating fish sticks with your friends. For UK audiences, a fish stick is a fish finger, ideally Alaskan-caught cod. The song comes packaged in Fenceline, an album about conversations with old friends, little cousins, ceaseless piles of dust in your crumbling duplex, loves and theologians and their books. Fencelines mark two places but belong to neither. Neither nor, either or.”
The song is accompanied by a new video directed by Nick Roberts, which leans into the album’s themes of liminality and everyday unease.
Fenceline captures Mildred at the point where scattered scenes, relationships, and half-formed ideas coalesce into something quietly assured.
