Blog: Loft And Lost

Here's another biggie. Midlake 's last album, "The Trials Of Van Occupanther", was one of my favourite albums of the decade . I loved the old-age feel to the record, it was like The Band jamming with ELO in a theme park about the Wheeler Survey . And they are back on February 1st with "The Courage Of Others". From what I've heard, it's somewhat more minor key than "Van Occupanther", but carries over that lovely pastoral 19th Century backwoods town feel to it. You'd expect them to turn up in an [...]

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