{"id":4780,"date":"2025-08-27T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/midlake-new-album\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:12:00","slug":"midlake-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/midlake-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlake\u2019s Sixth Album Isn\u2019t \u2018Far\u2019 From Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/08\/3630sheaff-R1-27-10-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"863\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Just in time for more fall-like temperatures, Texas-reared Midlake are back with another dose of refined folk rock on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/midlake.myshopify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Bridge to Far<\/a><\/em>, due Nov. 7 from their own Midlake Records. The follow-up to 2022\u2019s <em>For the Sake of Bethel Woods<\/em> is led by first single \u201cThe Ghouls,\u201d an in-studio video for which can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Bridge to Far<\/em> was produced by Sam Evian and boasts guest appearances by Madison Cunningham, Hannah Cohen, and\u00a0Meg Lui. And yes, the band are aware of the potential for confusion based on the spelling of the album\u2019s name, which they assure is \u201cnot a typo\u201d but rather a means to \u201cexplore the hope, belief and ultimate path to something or somewhere greater, despite the circumstances. Escapism can be a double edged sword but the desire is to encourage it for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2022\/12\/50-more-great-albums-of-the-year\/\">50 More Great Albums of the Year<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/10\/midlake-announce-for-the-sake-of-bethel-woods-release-meanwhile\/\">Midlake Announce <i>For The Sake of Bethel Woods<\/i>, Release \u2018Meanwhile\u2026\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/09\/sam-evian-trips-with-an-alien-in-new-video\/\">Sam Evian Trips With an Alien in New Video<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for working with Evian, who is known for his collaborations with Cohen, Cass McCombs and Big Thief, Midlake\u2019s Eric Pulido offers, \u201cto just play in the room together and capture an authentic interpretation of songs is a great joy, and on this album we did just that. Stylistically, there\u2019s familiarity in places we\u2019ve been as a band in the past, as well as new places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues, \u201cthe reference and inspiration is Midlake. This album is less about referencing someone else\u2019s sound and more about sounding like us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group has only played live a handful of times since 2023 and just once this year, but will be back in action in Texas on Sept. 27 for the Hoodoo Mural festival in Amarillo, Nov. 14 in Austin and the following day in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"ph_nvka7QI8\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for more fall-like temperatures, Texas-reared Midlake are back with another dose of refined folk rock on A Bridge to Far, due Nov. 7 from their own Midlake&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3479,3480,3481,6,3482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hannah-cohen","category-madison-cunningham","category-midlake","category-news","category-sam-evian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}