Miki Berenyi Trio release their first official single, “Vertigo”

Fronted by Miki Berenyi – best known as the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and founder member of shoegaze icons and Britpop darlings, Lush, and her more recent band, Piroshka – the trio includes Piroshka collaborators Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop on guitar and Oliver Cherer on bass. The single comes accompanied by a performance video filmed by French director Sébastien Faits-Divers in the Consortium Museum (Contemporary Art Centre) in Dijon.

“Vertigo” has been part of the band’s live set for over a year and is one of the first songs they wrote together. Berenyi notes, “‘Vertigo’ is about anxiety and the efforts to talk myself down from the precipice – the usual cheerful stuff.” Of the recording process, she adds, “It’s a challenge to not have a drummer, and to use more programming, but the essence of the music is still guitars and melody – as it always has been, particularly in mine and Moose’s bands.”