Home Rock News Pleasant but never bland, Midlake’s For The Sake Of Bethel

Pleasant but never bland, Midlake’s For The Sake Of Bethel

0
Pleasant but never bland, Midlake’s For The Sake Of Bethel

TODAY’S BEST DEALS

It’s debatable whether they’d take this as a compliment, but Midlake have learned to relax. Their fifth album, their first in just shy of a decade, is perhaps their most purely enjoyable, eschewing the furrow-browed genre-jumbling of earlier work. 

It’s the atypical Texans’ second with Eric Pulido singing (Tim Smith left in 2012), and allows some sultry soft rock to breathe without worrying whether it’s scoring alt.folk points. So it exhales warm gusts of Boz Scaggs or Josh Rouse, as the tricksy, Tull-like prog tropes of yore are kept to a minimum. 

As ever, pleasant shouldn’t be mistaken for bland. The album mulls over time, illness and innocence, while the spirits of Neil Young and Stephen Stills set the temperature. 

Their first with an outside producer – John Congleton (St. Vincent, John Grant, Blondie) – it’s especially elegant around its mid-section (Feast Of Carrion, Noble). Midlake have gone back to the garden.

TODAY’S BEST DEALS

View Original Source Here

No Preview
Legal Battle Over Prince’s Cloud Guitar is Over
Lollapalooza Security Guard Allegedly Fakes Mass Shooting Threat Alert
No Preview
John Lennon’s Bitter 1971 Letter to Paul McCartney Up for
Watch Staind’s Aaron Lewis Perform New Song “I Ain’t Made
Watch Kevin Bacon and Jimmy Fallon turn Tears For Fears’
New 30th anniversary version of ‘ABBA Gold’ coming next month
Listen to Slipknot’s thundering new single, ‘Yen’
Beyoncé earns fourth number one album while Cribs enter top
AP Gallery: Michael Dubin on his first show, discovering emo
On Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation, $ucideboy$’ commitment
The Latest: Spirit Halloween’s creepy trailer, FLETCHER gets steamy and
Okkervil River Released “The Stage Names” 15 Years Ago Today
Inhuman Depravity Premiere New Single
Dave Lombardo Picks His Favorite Slayer Deep Cuts
I Am Premiere New Music Video
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Cancels UK & European Tour As
Video Premiere: The Damnnation — “The Greed”
Soulfly release new music video for ‘Filth Upon Filth’
Track Premiere: Idol Throne – “Unholy Warrior”
Full Album Premiere: Mental Devastation ‘The Delusional Mystery of the
Sweet Child O’ Mine Symphonic – Epic Symphonic Rock
Michael Learns To Rock – Sleeping Child
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine
MAUT DE SAUDAGAR (Full Song ) SINGGA | Latest Punjabi Songs 2019 | Singaa New Song | New Music Video
NFL Blitz Legends: Jerry Rice Interview
Ezra Miller, The Flash Star, Seeking Treatment for ‘Complex Mental
Johnny Depp Directing ‘Modigliani’
John Stamos Interview: Marvel’s Spidey & His Amazing Friends