Five Things About Midlake
1. The Denton, Texas group is composed of former Jazz students that met at the University of North Texas.
2. Grandaddy's Jason Lytle and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye have both sung their praises.
3. Actor Jason Lee has called them one of the most important bands of our time, and even directed one of their videos.
4. The band admits they owe a musical debt to the Flaming Lips.
5. The band's sound draws from elements of '70s folk-pop, earning comparisons to Fleetwood Mac.
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On the Blogs
What are bloggers saying about Midlake?
- "...Midlake is "cinematic" or simply copping AM gold, but those boys from Denton, Texas sure are cinephiles..."
- "Whenever we claim that small-town Texas five-piece Midlake sound like Fleetwood Mac minus the chicks and the excessive coke use..."
- "The Denton, TX band called Midlake were seriously one of the best things about music in 2006"
- "After toiling away in relative obscurity for a few years Denton, Texas' Midlake are finally getting their due. "
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