Midlake

Overview

Texan psych-folk favourites Midlake have just announced they'll be heading to Australia to join the already amazing Vivid LIVE lineup. While in the country, they'll also be swinging by Melbourne's Corner Hotel for a show in late May with The Orbweavers and HOWQUA, but it's bad luck if you live anywhere else. This Australian tour — their first since 2010 — is a mere two stops long.

The beardy sextet will be touring off the back of their recently released fourth studio album, Antiphon — and for a band who's been around for over a decade, their sound hasn't changed a whole lot. Since their breakthrough 2006 release, The Trials of Van Occupanther, and its standout singles 'Roscoe' and 'Young Bride', Midlake have always sounded a little like a contemplative day in the countryside. The kind of day where you rug up in a flannel shirt and suppress your emotional problems with a bottle of hard cider.

The band itself has been facing some hardship recently as lead singer and songwriter Tim Smith left the band during the recording of their recent album to pursue other projects. Midlake will be touring without him in their Australian shows, to the disappointment of some long-term fans. But overall, the band is bouncing back well. Antiphon is a little more on the psych side of their signature psych-folk, but it will definitely complement a Vivid lineup that already includes The Pixies, St Vincent and James Vincent McMorrow.