EXETER: Lemon Grove

SUN 31ST OCT, 2010 7.30pm

Texan indie rock band Midlake announce an Exeter date on their UK tour this Autumn promoting the release of “THE COURAGE OF OTHERS”, their extraordinary third album. It is their most complete and beautiful body of work yet, best appreciated as a whole in the old-fashioned sense of an album - which makes perfect sense when you know Midlake linchpin Tim Smith’s fondness for the look and feel of past times. So what’s changed since The Trials of Van Occupanther, their second, hugely loved breakthrough album? Just as that record was in part inspired by the soft(er) rock of the early-to-mid 1970s – from Neil Young and America to Fleetwood Mac – so Midlake’s new album also looks to a slightly earlier, and definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound. It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as Van Occupanther but it’s a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier. The Courage of Others has gained rave reviews since its release in February this year - notably ‘album of the month’ in Mojo.