Midlake The Trials of VAN OCCUPANTHER Vinyl LP Record
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Description
MIDLAKE
The Trials of VAN OCCUPATHER
12” vinyl record
Very Rare and limited release
Vinyl is Near Mint
Jacket is Very Good +
I purchased a couple of this very rare LP directly from Bella Union in the UK a couple of years ago. In written communication with a Bella Union employee I learned that the original press was between 1200 and 1500 records. They released another small pressing of about 500 records some time later.
The jacket is made from a very thin flimsy cardboard and already had creases and questionable corners. Also, they did not come shrink-wrapped which is why I’m grading it as Near Mint. I’ve only removed the vinyl to inspect and photograph it – it has never been played. I’ve done my best to show you the condition issues – but rest assured – the record is quite amazing
Track Listing:
1) Roscoe
2) Bandits
3) Head Home
4) Van Occupanther
5) Young Bride
6) Branches
7) In This Camp
8) We Gathered in Spring
9) It Covers the Hillsides
10) Chasing After Deer
11) You never Arrived
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News release from Bella Union:
It’s been a long old wait for this, well 3 years, but Midlake finally return with their wonderful new album titled “The Courage Of Others”
It’s ironic that Midlake’s new album is titled “The Courage Of Others” because, if anything, the courage is all theirs. Namely, the courage to do what feels right and stay true to the spirit of artistic independence whilst ignoring any pressure to conform to expectations. The result is the Texas quintet’s third album, their most complete and beautiful body of work yet, best appreciated as a whole in the old-fashioned sense of an album - which makes perfect sense when you know Midlake linchpin Tim Smith’s fondness for the look and feel of past times.
So what’s changed since The Trials of Van Occupanther, their second, hugely loved breakthrough album? Just as that record was in part inspired by the soft(er) rock of the early-to-mid 1970s – from Neil Young and America to Fleetwood Mac – so Midlake’s new album also looks to a slightly earlier, and definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound. It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as Van Occupanther but it’s a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier. Perfect, in other words, for its February release date, at the height of winter.
Neither do the new songs feature any hermit-scientists like Van Occupanther, or the mythical Roscoe. The songs that constitute The Courage Of Others, Tim says, are closer to his heart than those of their first two albums because, “I don’t feel I’m looking at the songs through someone else’s eyes. I’ve tried to keep it as true to myself as I could.” Guitarist Eric Pulido adds, “We didn’t want to make the same album as Van Occupanther, so we carried on moving and creating and pushing for a newer sound and emotion.”
