The prodigiously talented Seattle rock group Midday Veil will be releasing their third album proper, This Wilderness, on Brooklyn indie label Beyond Beyond Is Beyond this summer on LP/CD/MP3. Produced at Avast! Recording Co. by Randall Dunn—who also worked on Midday Veil‘s excellent 2013 LP The Current—This Wilderness includes an incredible cast of guest musicians: Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell, Stranger Genius/string-instrument master Eyvind Kang, percussionist Tor Dietrichson, and wildcard saxophonist Skerik.
Midday Veil have been playing these new tracks out at recent live events, and they reveal a band intelligently transforming their lofty psych-rock elements into a dazzling strain of cosmic disco that’s at once joyous and portentous. “Stylistically, the sound is more electronic and upbeat than anything we’ve done previously, but it’s still dramatic and intense (because, haha, it’s still us),” says Emily Pothast, the group’s vocalist/lyricist/keyboardist. “It’s also our first release since adding [drummer] Garrett Moore to our lineup.
“Lyrically, the songs on This Wilderness are a cycle that explores the self-destructiveness implicit in the civilizing impulse. It comes from a place that is critical, but ultimately acknowledges its complacency in this beautiful, terrifying culture that we all participate in whether we want to or not.”
