Written by: Alex Green

Let’s get the time thing out of the way.

When Milo Binder’s debut album came out in 1991, it was a refreshing breeze of new folk, played with dexterity and lyrical grace. Signed to Alias, who, at the time had American Music Club, Too Much Joy and The Sneetches on their roster, Binder’s self-titled album surely heralded a long and promising career.

Nothing gets in the way of all that more efficiently than life itself and Binder decided to live his as a family man rather than grind it out in clubs, traipsing back and forth, bleary-eyed across the country.

So Binder disappeared into domesticity and that was that.

Until now.

Breaking a multi-decades long silence, Binder is back with album #2 and not only was it worth the wait, time hasn’t touched his pristine vocal delivery or dampened his clever wordplay.

With a voice that sounds as familiar as an old friend’s at the other end of the telephone, Binder’s new Willie Aron-produced album The Unspeakable Milo Binder is an endless joy.

The first single, “I Should Be Your Man” uses biblical imagery to make the point that the two people in the song have been brought together by something much larger than earthly, terrestrial love. Name-checking Moses, deserts and burning bushes, Binder sings of a love that was ordained by the divine (“Baby, I’ve been with you since before it all began”) and conjured by the heavens. It’s a drop-dead gorgeous love song that acknowledges when love is meant to be, it came long before any of us knew each other.

Binder’s voice stops you in your tracks; it’s exquisitely still and commanding and it floats with vitality and ease.

It’s good to have him back.

Listen to Milo Binder on Stereo Embers The Podcast