Cavalcade
The UK band stakes out even more ground on their glorious second album. The chord changes are more elaborate, the rhythms more twisted, the pretty parts prettier, the heavy parts heavier.
Unpredictability rules once again on the trio’s second album, which pushes them further down the avant-garde rabbit hole
With an expanded sound palette, the Mecury Prize-nominated group might be onto something big
On their brooding and explorative second record, the London band remain fearless in their wandering, but sometimes just end…
Building from a sound already so idiosyncratic and unpredictable, they end up in some head-scratching corners.
The British group continue in their tradition of no-holds-barred musical exploration
From royal parade to limelit cabaret, black midi traverse new ground on new album 'Cavalcade', but the journey remains as jolting as ever.
London rock band Black Midi crashed through in a big way with their 2019 debut album Schlagenheim, a riveting mission statement for their energetic and boundary-testing reconfiguration of post-punk.
There were many directions black midi could have taken to move forward from their acclaimed debut, 2019's Schlagenheim. The sense of mystery...
The music video for “Ducter,” the closing track on black midi’s 2019 debut "Schlagenheim," featured prominent visuals of recognizable images like cities and classical portraits melting into digital oblivion. It was a fitting visual metaphor for the band’s approach on that album: familiar instrumentation and identifiable influences, blown up in a destructive, thrashy blur.
I’ve often wondered if it’s harder for bands to write, and record, their second album or their first. For some bands it’s all done and
On second album Cavalcade, Black Midi make you wonder what can possibly stop them delivering on their boundless artistic vision
No matter how maddening and challenging the album can be, the songwriting and musicianship is impressive.
Black Midi's Cavalcade displays superlative skills, fierce chemistry, avant-garde vision, and spellbinding performances while also falling prey to sonic tautologies and circuitousness.
Cavalcade by black midi album review by Adam Williams. The UK band's full-length comes out on May 28, 2021 via Rough Trade Records
There’s a impressive maelstrom of moods on the Mercury nominees’ new album, building to a fantastical, absurdist whole
For all its surreal strangeness, this is a remarkably focused and coherent album