Midlake - The Courage of Others
A new decade, and a new start? Well, for Midlake in 2010 this rings only partly true. If the sound of their 2006 breakthrough album, The Trials of Van Occupanther dealt heavily in Fleetwood Mac stylings, then this new record is instead the result of long listens to retro English folk – think Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Pentangle, all of whom frontman Tim Smith admits are integral to the sound of The Courage of Others. Gone is the bombast of ‘Roscoe’, replaced by the “fair maiden” sound of ‘Acts Of Man’ and, well, a number of… flutes. And yet this change sounds like a natural progression rather than a sea-change for Midlake, with the same haunting vocal harmonies and spacious guitar sounds making for an experience that is just as affecting as Van Occupanther if not more.
Tim Wong
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