Lost Friends

Middle Kids’ debut album works its charms on you slowly, like strangers exchanging glances from across a room. The Sydney trio seduces with precision sing-song indie, broken up with waves of crushing guitar and flecks of crystalline pop. Tracks like “Mistake” and “Please” are dotted with catchy hooks and open-diary lyrics. At times a bit like a busky HAIM, other times like Pixies in full assault mode, Middle Kids balance strong and vulnerable, soft and loud, and execute it all with youthful rock \'n\' roll enthusiasm.

"Lost Friends", Middle Kids’ forthcoming debut on Domino, is the kind of album that sucker-punches you in the gut, revealing its nuances only after repeated listens. Its twelve songs veer from brittle blasts of indie rock, to elegiac piano ballads, to pop anthems destined to ignite stadium singalongs. The songs’ edges have been kept jagged, the production clean, the band keen to let stray imperfections imbue warmth and a human touch.

The Australian trio’s debut album deals in radiant, anthemic indie rock, balancing doubt-ridden lyrics with clear-eyed execution.

Indebted only to themselves, expect great things from Middle Kids.

Middle Kids' 'Lost Friends' is a powerful and sincere debut album from the Sydney indie-rock trio. Get the NME verdict.

A solid first step.

Balancing the expressive grace of Hannah Joy's vocals against the buzzy but melodic wall of guitars generated by Joy and Tim Fitz, Middle Kids display an impressive gift for grand-scale indie pop on their first full-length album, 2018's Lost Friends.

Australian rock trio Middle Kids has serious promise to live up to. The two best songs on Its self-titled 2017 EP, "Edge of Town" and "Never Start," offered surprisingly idiosyncratic, energetic takes on alt-country, indie rock, and pop.

Classically-trained trio Middle Kids have struck out with indie-pop guns blazing over the last year or so. Punchy singles ‘Edge Of Town’

Confident, self-assured - the debut album from Australian trio Middle Kids 'Lost Friends' still leaves room for potential.

'Lost Friends' by Middle Kids: Middle Kids create an indie record with real soul on Lost Friends.