Video: Acts of Man / Rulers Ruling All Things

midlake - acts of man / rulers ruling all things [back in 2006, the album 'the trials of van occupanther' was easily one of my favorite albums that year. with it's lush harmonies and retro feel, it offered a soundtrack to an introspective late summer of beautiful memories. with their upcoming album 'the courage of others' ready for a feb 2010 release, it looks like i'll be plugged into my ipod again for some time.] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld

I'm not an excitable person, I don't think, and maybe it's a mix of the three cups of coffee, cabin fever from a mid-Atlantic snowpocalypse, application anxiety, and the plateful of bacon and eggs I just put down. But the perpetually downtrodden indie rockers of Midlake have got me pretty excited. Their new album, 'Courage of Others (to release via Bella Union in February),' follows the Van Occupanther experiment in sound and comes across as vulnerable and distant, sweet and intimidating, vain and honest. Their transition from track to track, especially when it drops down to 'fortune' from 'core of [...]

"Acts of Man," the first single from Midlake's hotly anticipated third album The Courage of Others, and its b-side, "Rulers, Ruling All Things," have hit the hype Machine like a bomb in the last 12 hours, spreading like magma. And for good reason: It's the first music we've heard from the band in nearly three years, and it's the kind of sweeping, regal folksy track that broke the band big via The Trials of Van Occupanther. The Courage of Others is due out on Feb. [...]