midlake on Elsewhere by Graham Reid - browse 3 items of content tagged as 'midlake'.
John Grant: Queen of Denmark (Shock)
Although he recorded three albums with the band the Czars, we should perhaps treat this quite exceptional, moving, funny, droll and heart-breaking singer-songwriter as a new artist.
And on those terms he immediately places himself in the company of early Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson and a more humorous Rufus Wainwright for songs like...
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Forbidden Joe: In Mourning for the Pride of Petravore (Forbidden Joe)
The previous EP by this Auckland folk trio (and friends) was impressive but tantalizingly too brief to get a full picture of what they were and might be capable of. But the one song by Francis Dickinson prompted me to point to it as something rather special and hold out hope for more from her astute pen when the album rolled around....
> music/3059/forbidden-joe-in-mourning-for-the-pride-of-petravore-forbidden-joe/
Midlake: The Courage of Others (Inertia)
This quintet from Texas -- now on their third album -- has only appeared once previously at Elsewhere, a wonderful track on the collection Secret Love 4. That piece (the sample track posted with that album) was so impressive their name imprinted itself on my memory -- and then this album turns up.
In the absence of hearing much else by them...
> music/2846/midlake-the-courage-of-others-inertia/
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