Midlake
Antiphon

I got to know Midlake in 2006 with their second album "The Trials of Van Occupanther", a small folk-rock gem rich in elegant and refined ballads. I found them again in 2013 with their fourth album, without their historical leader Tim Smith and led by guitarist Eric Pulido, in a totally different dimension. Having abandoned the main road of folk-rock that had made them famous (so to speak!), Midlake heads towards the reassuring psychedelic shores of the '60s/'70s, delivering eleven very suggestive tracks, despite the lack of originality. The album flows very pleasantly with vocal/choral/guitar layers, supported by "sixties" keyboards and a very agile and colorful drum. The atmospheres are very enveloping and captivating, rich in shadows and twilights, between prog passages and instrumental pieces.

An album for die-hard, anachronistic psychedelics (despite today's revival), for those who abandoned music in the early '80s, for all the nostalgics of the golden years straddling the Sixties and Seventies, for those who abhor novelties.

I'm wearing it out.