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From The Desk Of Midlake: Running In Random Places Around The Globe

JesseSpoiler alert! The new Midlake record is not from the band that you grew to love with The Trials Of Van Occupanther. With each successive album, the members of Midlake transformed, foregrounding a different favorite section of their record collections. Now comes Antiphon (ATO), which announces itself with an opening title track that rocks harder and more insistently than anything in the group’s prior catalog. Midlake again sounds like a new band. And, this time it is: It’s Midlake’s first since the departure of principal singer/songwriter Tim Smith, its first with guitarist Eric Pulido stepping into those lead roles, its first with former touring members Jesse Chandler (keyboards, flute) and Joey McClellan (guitars) officially joining drummer Mackenzie Smith, multi-instrumentalist Paul Alexander and guitarist Eric Nichelson. Chandler and Nichelson will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Midlake feature.

Running

Chandler: Several of us Midlakers are pretty avid runners. We all have our daily exercise routines when we’re home in Denton, but to me the real exciting running happens when you’re on tour. Usually we don’t have too much time to check out the places we play, but running, a opposed to walking, is a great way to cover more ground in a city and get good impression for the limited time that we’re there. I have gotten lost in cities occasionally, but finding your way back to the venue is all part of the fun, right? Some of our more memorable runs include: Perth, Istanbul, Bangor (Ireland), Utrecht and Santa Cruz.

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