black midi by Atiba Jefferson
black midi will be playing their biggest UK headline show to-date at Somerset House on July 13th.
black midi have unveiled their new album Hellfire and its first single Welcome To Hell, which Geordie Greep describes as, ‘like an epic action film’.
“Almost everyone depicted is a kind of scumbag,” he continues on the single. “Almost everything I write is from a true thing, something I experienced and exaggerated and wrote down.
“I don’t believe in Hell, but all that old world folly is great for songs, I’ve always loved movies and anything else with a depiction of Hell. Dante’s Inferno. When Homer goes to Hell in the Simpsons. There’s a robot Hell in Futurama. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer who portrays a Satan interfering in people’s lives. There’s loads!”
It’s the swift follow-up to last year’s second studio record Cavalcade, which Live4ever praised for keeping a coherent tone despite its scope and ambition:
“But with time, eyes adjust and surroundings start to become clearer,” our review reads. “Almost gently, its cast of characters begin emerging from the smoke”
“On the at first soothing and later enthralling lounge-funk-to-Led Zep-blues-rock of Dethroned, on Patella and Slow’s seamless meld, and when star quality triumphs over any adversity on the bossa nova Marlene Dietrich.”
“True clarity arrives on Ascending Forth, a 10-minute stroll hand-in-hand, subtly but constantly marching towards a measured, expertly built crescendo. It may well be the best thing they’ve done to-date.”
Hellfire tracklist:
Hellfire
Sugar/Tzu
Eat Men Eat
Welcome To Hell
Still
The Race Is About To Begin
Dangerous Liaisons
The Defence
27 Questions
