Sunday Afternoon Music

Last week, I talked about a Congolese band that I enjoy a lot, Kasai Allstars. I hope some of you guys checked it out and enjoyed it. This week, I’m going with something a little bit different.



One of my favorite albums of this year has been a 2006 album by the Denton, Texas band Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther. I caught up to it a bit late, but when it put its hooks into me, it was hard to get away from it. Midlake have evolved quite a bit since their earlier material, from a totally different band with a jazz fusion sound to their current incarnation as an indie rock band deeply indebted to classic rock of the seventies. This album, especially, sounds like Thom Yorke of Radiohead fronting Fleetwood Mac. The song above, “Roscoe,” opens the album. The whole album is great, but other tracks especially worth checking out are “Bandits,” “Head Home” and “Young Bride.” They’ve got great videos as well. Can’t ask for too much more than that, can you?