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This Wilderness

by Midday Veil

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muschiosauro Midday Veil continue perfecting their Stereolab-meet-Jane-Weaver-meet-80s-synth-music-meet-krautrock brand of psychedelia while maintaining their own unique identity. The songs are now more streamlined, structured and focused, but their otherwordly, far-reaching, cosmic nature is still absolutely intact and even enhanced by the sparse but effective use of violin, viola and trumpet in a few cuts. Superb psych rock, definitely. Favorite track: Circle.
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RhizomeCircuit Just saw you at Chop Suey. Had to buy your album. Thanks for the great music! Favorite track: Cages.
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Jags71 2 weeks ago I'd never heard of MV. Now I can't stop listening to this album. I can't remember the last time a song made a home in my head like 'Empire...' has. And now 'I Am The War' has joined it. Favorite track: Empire Is No More.
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1.
Babel 06:49
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Cages 04:42
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The Water 06:09
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Circle 05:44
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I Am The War 06:13
7.
Universes 06:17

about

Somewhere among the sonic synchronicity that binds together the forty-two minutes of Midday Veil’s animated and eloquent new album “This Wilderness,” attentive listeners will be struck by the realization that the human organism embodied by the listener is an integral part of an interconnected ecosystem.

It’s a realization about self, size and scope, and like the album itself, it’s massive. Midday Veil have long found themselves comfortable creating colossal concerns, as recorded on the band’s earliest, self-released explorations. The band’s preceding full-length album – 2013’s “The Current,” named one of the year’s best avant-rock releases by The Wire – could be viewed as the band emerging from their kosmische chrysalis, unfurling previously unheard banners of both color and control. “This Wilderness” is the sound of the band under the self-imposed hypnosis of that emergence, extending the voyage with even more discipline than ever before.

Yet it’s the mystery of “This Wilderness” that makes the album among the most creatively compelling of this or any year, and vocalist and founding member Emily Pothast gives voice to that mystery both literally and figuratively. On the opening invocation of “Babel,” Pothast addresses her place within “This Wilderness” and by extension, the place of the listener as well: “This wilderness amazes me / but covers me with shame / when I aspire to codify / the thing that has no name.” On “Babel” and throughout “This Wilderness,” the band stands firmly in the midst of that amazement, transmitting a wide-eyed discovery of the full potential of their sounds and surroundings, utterly resisting retreat into a preordained musical framework and embracing the endless multiplicity of perspective.

The beating musical heart of “This Wilderness” remains the out-sized synth wizardry of co-founder David Golightly, who seems to have ingested every possible mind-altering sound from Stockhausen to Cybotron to the “Love to Love You” of Donna Summer. They’re all on display here, made especially ornate by the driving percussion of Garrett Moore, the deep, submerging bass of Jayson Kochan, and the often-explosive, reptilian guitar lines of multi-instrumentalist Timm Mason. Rounding out the lineup is an all-star cast of guest spots including Bernie Worrell (Parliament, Funkadelic), Eyvind Kang and Skerik.
It’s unclear what will happen next, nor does it seem to particularly matter. Midday Veil will be staying in “This Wilderness” – in an increasingly interconnected, dynamic, even dangerous cosmos – for quite awhile, and it’s our good fortune to join them.

“Does it feel like magic? Does it feel like pain? Does it scratch the surface? The echo that remains.” – Ryan Muldoon, revoltoftheapes.com

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released September 11, 2015

*Band photo by Frank Correa

**Album and poster art by Midday Veil's Emily Pothast

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