Midlake - For The Sake Of Bethel Woods [Crystal Clear LP]For The Sake Of Bethel Woods [Crystal Clear LP] Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of purpose. These themes echo throughout the fifth album from Midlake, their first since Antiphon (2013). Reuniting with intense focus after a long hiatus, the result is For the Sake of Bethel Woods an album with tremendous thematic and sonic reach, produced to layered, loving perfection by John Congleton. It's a record full of immersive

The Governor delivers a brutal

taken from the two books of The Well-tempered Clavier and the Twenty-four Preludes op

one way or another

Noseda's dramatic

included a world premiere of Brunner's cycle based on poems by Vera Koubová

This 48-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of just about all their releases on the Apollo and in a second incarnation of the group under lead singer Eugene Mumford on the Apollo subsidiary label Lloyds

Music has always been used throughout the ages to convey certain states

and his recorded legacy demonstrates why

cinematic femme fatale Emmanuelle Seigner and ice-cool pop provocateurs The Limiñanas

and underlining what a versatile and unusual talent he was

In the introductory Sinfonia and the two alto arias of "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben"

developing the musical concepts