Bass musician Aaron Bilodeau of Milford will be releasing his latest album, Lid Licker, on June 12. Courtesy photo

MILFORD – Bass musician Aaron Bilodeau of Milford will be releasing his latest album, Lid Licker, on June 12.

Bilodeau has been dazzling crowds since the 1990s, playing with metal bands and experimental rock projects including Change of Season, The Isolated Sequence and Holodrone.

“Over time, I developed into a solo artist built around bass as the main instrument,” he said, adding that he describes his genre as “driven experimental art rock.”

Bilodeau said he grew up around music. His father played the drums in Christian worship band, The Sounds of Praise, and his mother was a guitar player.

“There were musicians at the house regularly,” he said.

When he was 15 years old, Bilodeau took his mother’s guitar to the Ted Herbert Music School in Manchester and had them “string it up.” Within the next few years, he purchased his first bass guitar, a purple Yamaha, at Hampshire Music in Nashua.

“I remember slapping it on right there in the store and it came naturally, I was hooked,” said Bilodeau. “I think what attracted me was the sound and the feeling of it. Bass felt physical and alive to me right away. I can move around the instrument in a way that gets my blood pressure up. It feels safe to let go and go full out, especially now that I am doing the solo thing.”

Speaking about his new Lid Licker album, Bilodeau said the title came from a childhood joke that his wife, Amy, used to make about licking pudding lids.

“I liked it because it sounded funny, strange, a little gross and somehow personal,” he said. “It felt right for the album.”

Bilodeau said he began making the album two years ago and during that time, some of the songs went through multiple iterations.

“It has humor in it, but it also deals with heavier things, he said.

One song, The Passenger, is about fighting cancer, 10PM is about how Bilodeau met Amy, One Drop at a Time is about the struggles of an independent musician and Wud Up is about connecting with people.

He also said Lid Licker does not have one overall theme.

“It is more about surviving the weird parts of life, keeping your sense of humor and still making something out of it,” said Bilodeau. “It is strange, dark, funny, personal and very much where I am right now.”

In addition to Lid Licker, Bilodeau has released Aaron and the Argonauts, Drone at Home, DESTROYER and Hello to Nobody. He has also worked on smaller projects such as Xero Acid Burn and Pink Chicken.

“Each album has its own thing going on, but Lid Licker feels like the clearest version of my current sound — bass driven rock with fuzz, organ sounds, drums and strange songs,” he said.