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Midlake has announced an eagerly anticipated performance at the upcoming Newport Folk Festival 2022, set for Newport, RI’s Fort Adams State Park on Saturday, July 23. The upcoming appearance marks the latest date on the acclaimed Texas-based band’s current world headline tour, with North American, UK, and European headline shows set through November. In addition, Midlake will make a number of international festival appearances, including Sonoma, CA’s Huichica Festival (June 11), Maastricht, NL’s Bruis Festival (September 2), and Birmingham, UK’s Mosely Folk Festival (September 4). For complete details and remaining ticket information, please visit www.midlakeband.com/tour.
The world tour – which continues this weekend with headline shows at the legendary Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY (Friday, May 13) and New York City’s famed Bowery Ballroom (Saturday, May 14) – celebrates the recent release of Midlake’s acclaimed fifth studio album, For The Sake Of Bethel Woods, available now via ATO Records in the US and Bella Union in the UK. The album has been accompanied by a multi-part series of exclusive live sessions, “Meanwhile In Texas,” streaming now via YouTube HERE. Filmed at Dallas, TX’s Modern Electric Sound Recorders by director Rett Rogers (Nicole Atkins, Nathaniel Rateliff) and co-director Barbara FG, the series includes captivating live renditions of such LP standouts as “Feast of Carrion,” “Bethel Woods,” “Meanwhile…,” and the incredibly powerful “Noble.”
WATCH “FEAST OF CARRION (MEANWHILE IN TEXAS)”
LISTEN TO FOR THE SAKE OF BETHEL WOODS
Produced, engineered, and mixed by GRAMMY® Award-winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions in the Sky, Sharon Van Etten) at Elmwood Recording Studio in Dallas, TX, For The Sake Of Bethel Woods marks Midlake’s fifth full-length release and first time recording with an outside producer. The result is an album of immersive warmth and mystery from a landmark band once feared lost by fans, but here revivified with freshness and constancy of intent. A desire to commune with the past and connect with present, lived experience asserts itself throughout songs such as “Bethel Woods” – named of course for the site of 1969’s original 37-acre Woodstock festival field – and the sky-scraping space-rock of “Exile.” That same resonant spirit is further embodied by the instantly memorable cover art, designed by pro skateboarder/filmmaker/visual artist Brian Lotti and featuring a striking photo of keyboardist/flautist Jesse Chandler’s father, who tragically passed away in 2018.
Midlake is: Eric Pulido, Eric Nichelson, McKenzie Smith, Jesse Chandler, and Joey McClellan.
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PRAISE FOR MIDLAKE AND FOR THE SAKE OF BETHEL WOODS:
“Layered, sophisticated and melodic.”
– MOJO (****)
“An enthralling slow-seep jewel of an album that sees Midlake stretching out from their folk-rock and AOR heartland while displaying a sharper clarity than on any album since 2006’s The Trials of Van Occupanther…The quintet find strength in songs that explore the notion of reconnecting past and present, and reference their own dissolution and rebirth.”
– GUITAR.COM
“Between the concepts and soundscape, there is plenty to chew on. The professionalism and classy production (by John Congleton) create Midlake’s sense of camaraderie, mystery, and imagination. It’s an impressive return for a band many assumed might not reappear.”
– AMERICAN SONGWRITER
“Another gorgeous long-player, uniquely Midlake in their signature, highly orchestrated mix of '70s soft rock, prog, spacerock, komische, and folk…This is Midlake's best since 2006's The Trials of Van Occupanther, and in some ways it's better. They keep the mossy earthtones and fondness for vintage synths, mellotrons, flutes and lush vocal harmonies, but mostly jettison the lyrical preoccupations with the lives of people in 1891, for the here and now and personal. For the Sake of Bethel Woods doesn't feel like a history lesson, it feels like a homecoming.”
– BROOKLYN VEGAN
“Texan folk-rockers return in leaner, more dynamic form...For The Sake Of Bethel Woods secures Midlake’s future, running on a newly energized course.”
– UNCUT (7/10)
"A deeply dynamic record and one that has the broadest scope of influences of any Midlake album to date."
– THE GUARDIAN
“An album of great ambition with eleven expansive and shifting arrangements.”
– THE QUIETUS
“Midlake have pared back the layered instrumentation of previous albums, and in doing so, have found a different kind of voice (and Eric Pulido’s actual voice has never sounded better). A moving poeticism dances through the work…There is a real artfulness here, from the baroque pop and sublime harmonies…”
– THE IRISH TIMES (****)
“The folk rock romantics are back on form…Midlake return with a rich, involving album that reveals its charms in an unforced, unhurried fashion.”
– THE TIMES (****)
“Combining folk, psych rock, and jazz the album is one stunner after another…A noble undertaking and hopefully something that will draw us back to the time of shared purpose and mutual concern.”
– NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS
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MIDLAKE
TOUR 2022
MAY
13 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
14 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
16 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall
17 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
19 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
20 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar
21 – Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
JUNE
5 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
7 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
8 – Joshua Tree, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
10 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
11 – Sonoma, CA – Huichica Festival *
12 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
15 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
16 – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door
17 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre
19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
21 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre
22 – Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s
SEPTEMBER
4 – Birmingham, UK – Mosely Folk Festival *
6 – Istanbul, TU - Zorlu PSM %100 Studio
NOVEMBER
2 – Utrecht, NL – Ronda
4 – Groningen, NL – De Oosterpoort
6 – Copenhagen, DK – Pumpehuset
7 – Stockholm, SW – Nalen
8 – Oslo, NO – Vulkan Arena
9 – Gothenburg, SW – Pustervik
* FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
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MIDLAKE
FOR THE SAKE OF BETHEL WOODS
(ATO Records)
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