Every once in a while, a band comes along that undoubtedly evokes something special. You don't know what the elusive ingredient is, but you are certain that they belong set apart from amongst the crowd of musical peers in which they lay. You quickly find yourself coming to the foregone conclusion that such a band's music is to be revered and will remain relevant for some time to come. Midlake not only embodies this idealism in the hearts of many already, but with ?The Trials of Van Occupanther', they are ...   [ read more ]

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Every once in a while, a band comes along that undoubtedly evokes something special. You don't know what the elusive ingredient is, but you are certain that they belong set apart from amongst the crowd of musical peers in which they lay. You quickly find yourself coming to the foregone conclusion that such a band's music is to be revered and will remain relevant for some time to come. Midlake not only embodies this idealism in the hearts of many already, but with ?The Trials of Van Occupanther', they are ...   [ read more ]

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'The tricky thing about lo-fi music is that if you don't know in advance that it's a style that has deliberately been adopted, you may mistakenly suppose that it's just, well, bad. The final song on Bamnan and Slivercork, Midlake's debut album, is called Mr. Amateur, with lead singer Tim Smith, whose nasal voice recalls Rufus Wainwright's, declaring, I'm Mr. Amateur on the freeway/I'm Mr. Amateur with a cupcake, and the uninitiated, having listened to the disc's previous 43 or so minutes, might be incline...   [ read more ]

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