Artist.......: Midlake
Album........: The Courage Of Others
Label........: Bella Union
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jan-22-2010
str.date.....: Feb-01-2010
quality......: VBR/44.1KHz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Acts of man 02:55
02. Winter dies 05:04
03. Small mountain 03:39
04. Core of nature 04:29
05. Fortune 02:05
06. Rulers, ruling all things 04:22
07. Children of the grounds 03:55
08. Bring down 03:37
09. The horn 04:07
10. The courage of others 03:17
11. In the ground 04:15
Runtime 41:45 min
Size 60,1 MB
Release Notes:
Midlake was formed in 1999 by a group of jazz
students at the University of North Texas. The
original lineup consisted of Tim Smith (vocals,
guitars, keyboards), McKenzie Smith (drums), Paul
Alexander (bass), Eric Nichelson (guitar), and Evan
Jacobs (keyboards). Their initial work û under the
name "The Cornbread All-Stars" ù consisted of
funk/jazz explorations heavily influenced by Herbie
Hancock.
Later the band began to lean more toward an
indie-rock sound. Tim Smith quit playing saxophone
and began writing songs that were heavily
influenced by bands such as Jethro Tull, Radiohead,
Bj÷rk, and Grandaddy,artists who experiment, while
still remaining accessible
Speaking about the band's influences, Smith
commented:
"We don't want to get called a Radiohead
rip-off band. I think Radiohead is a lot closer to
my natural tendencies as a songwriter than a band
like, um, Jethro Tull. I listen to way more Jethro
Tull than I do Radiohead these days, but I could
write 10 Radiohead songs before I could write one
Jethro Tull song. I want to sound more like Jethro
Tull, but I just can't. That's a big struggle."
ùTim Smith of Midlake
Jacobs left the band and Eric Nichelson took over
on keyboard. Jason Upshaw joined the band as a
guitarist. Live recordings from this period,
recorded at Denton's Panhandle House studio, were
never released as the band felt they had moved
beyond the material.
Not long before the band recorded their dΘbut EP,
Milkmaid Grand Army, Upshaw was replaced on guitars
by Eric Pulido, a longtime friend of drummer Smith,
to form the current lineup. Their debut full-length
album, 2004's Bamnan and Slivercork, was recorded
at home in Denton, Texas and mastered at Abbey Road
Studios. It showed a move in the direction of lo-fi
psychedelic electronica, embracing influences such
as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips. The album even
caught the ear of skateboarder-turned-actor Jason
Lee, who produced and directed the music video for
the song "Balloon Maker", and who continues to
support and promote the band.
In 2006, after nearly a year-and-a-half of
recording and re-recording, they completed their
second release for Bella Union, The Trials of Van
Occupanther. The album was a venture into
classic-rock revivalism, with a sound reminiscent
of early-to-mid-'70s period Fleetwood Mac. The
album was met with generally positive
reviews.[citation needed]
In January 2009, their song "Bandits" was featured
in an episode of the FOX television drama Fringe.
The band is set to release the new album The
Courage Of Others in the US on Feb 2, 2010, and on
Feb 1, 2010 in the UK, accompanied by a small tour
of parts of the southeastern US and the UK.