Entertainment For Lively Minds
Midlake ~ Rulers, Ruling All Things
Posted by ChaosandMorphine on 22 February 2010 - 7:10pm.
- More from ChaosandMorphine.
- Login or register to post comments
-
User login
Recently Updated
Hot Topics - Last 7 Days
Hot Topics - Last 4 Weeks
The Sites We Like
- And Another Thing
- Another Nickel In The Machine
- Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop
- Freaky Trigger
- Fula Fula Ord
- The Ghosts Of Electricity
- Guardian Music Blog
- Idolator
- I Love Music
- The Lefsetz Letter
- McSweeney's
- Mixmag
- My Band T-shirt
- No Rock And Roll Fun
- Paul Du Noyer
- Planet Mondo
- Popjustice
- Pretty Goes With Pretty
- Tales Of The City
- The Arts Desk
- The Rising Storm
- The Rocking Vicar
- Scarlet Mist
- WFMU Blog
Stalker?
Aiming high aren't they?
Thanks to Chaos and
lennylaw I am discovering Midlake. Very much a mood thing but I enjoy music that's like a warm bath you can soak in. I can hear a bit of "Tubular Bells" in there, the occasional Talk Talk "Colour Of Spring" moment even a splash of Radiohead but it's the voice that bothers me. I know I've heard it before, I thought maybe Dewey Bunnell from America but it escapes me. Please help, who does Midlakes singer sound like?
That's
just bloody lovely. It's a "got to have on CD" because a digital download/Spotify play is just too modern.
who was the vocalist with
who was the vocalist with the Alan Parsons Project?
The Late Eric Woolfson
And..
I think you're right, Harry. It's that same breathy delivery.
Thinking about it, in his youth he bore more than a passing one to Tim Smith. Might be the beard..
I'm up to The Horn
It's like Blue Oyster Cult meets Wishbone Ash and sing a Fairport Convention tune with Sandy Denny on backing vocals.
Phew!
That's lovely.
Fleetwood Parsons Project. I must get their CD.
Hang on..
There's flutes as well.
How about The Fairbone Öystull Project?
No. That's no good. Sounds too much like a Norwegian Hydroelectric Plant planning application.
The Courage Of Others
I have something in my eye...
Beautiful
The album is exquisite. They really have a knack for writing songs that get right under your skin. It also seems to me that it is music that makes perfect sense for mid-winter.
'The Courage of Others' is superb,
After living with this album for 3 weeks and feeling initial disappointment, I've had a breakthrough since seeing them live last week and now I think I'm in love. My search to find the name of the fantastic guitarist they have on tour with them [Max Townsley, fyi - although I've since discovered that he is name-checked on the album, so could have just looked there - but then I wouldn't have found these beauties ], led me to You Tube and the video above, which is part of a series of film scenes chosen to augment the songs on the album. There are about six so far and this is my favourite of them, plus a whole host of live video's filmed during the current tour.
This clip was filmed at a show in Paris. It's pretty good considering the amateur nature of it, but obviously doesn't do justice to the full effect, but it was the best one I could find of the aforementioned Mr. Townsley.
It's good but.....
I invested in the Courage of Others on the back of the Word piece last month and a couple of other things I'd read.
It's good, but isn't it all a bit same-y?
Similar melodies, tempo, arrangements, lyrical themes, etc?
I like it, but it's not reaching the heights of pleasure I thought it would.
Last week I would've agreed with you,
your feelings echo exactly my own up to that point. But now!
As the man said, 'It's forlorn, gentle and totally absorbing'.
I'm trying....
It's still on heavy rotation on my iPod because it seems to me to be the sort of music where you can have an epiphany after repeated plays, and it transforms from something good into something magical.
I'll give it another week to see if I make the breakthrough.
I'm in awe of the whole creation
but isn't the instrumental break at 3:00 horribly out of tune?
It is a bit, yeah.
It must be an issue with the clip as I don't hear it on my copy of the album or on the Spotify version.
Here's another clip.
Very cutting edge that..
..sounds like Amazing Blondel.
It has to be my bias, because that clip just might be the most
sublime 4 minutes of visual poetry in cinema history, but...
THAT doesn't work.