Described as “chiming vocal-led post-rock”, Midas Fall have carved a unique sound, combining elements of electronica, post-rock and alt-goth to create “powerful yet fragile, devastatingly beautiful and beautifully devastating” music .
2015 saw Midas Fall release their third album ‘the Menagerie Inside’ on Monotreme Records followed by their biggest European tour to date. In 2016 sees Midas Fall return to Scotland to continue writing new material .
Combining elements of electronica, post-rock and alternative rock with progressive and gothic undertones, UK band Midas Fall have carved a distinctive and captivating sound, creating taut, shimmering soundscapes led by the hauntingly melancholic vocals of Elizabeth Heaton – a sound described as “powerful yet fragile, devastatingly beautiful and beautifully devastating”.
Midas Fall’s third album ‘the Menagerie Inside’ , The record, mastered by legendary engineer Ed Brooks (Pearl Jam, Death Cab for Cutie, Caspian) will feature nine new tracks and will be released in digital, CD and limited edition vinyl formats.
“Wilderness” flows by seamlessly, impressive and skin-tingling, the album track by track, play by play catapults the band well over the looming fear of that- one-album-band and sends them soaring to new heights.
“Midas Fall are excellent providers of chiming vocal led post-rock and deserve extra credit for steering clear of many of the genre’s most notorious clichés. Never do they stray into the overlong territory that even legends such as Explosions in the Sky have failed to avoid in recent years, which, for a band still touring their debut album is even more impressive. The vocals are gorgeous and the propulsive rhythms and shimmering guitars make the band a genuinely wonderful way to start off the evening.
“Haunting and tender, melodious and powerful, As Our Blood Separates is an aqueous compilation that showcases Midas Fall’s ability to completely infiltrate the listener…so artfully put together you can tell no note or sound was left unexamined…fluid and moving, it will stay with you long after the echo of its final piano chord has faded.
“Amidst the atmosphere and drones, there is a poetry, with a sad voice juxtaposed. The album closes the album with a bang, with a note that resonates even after the music has stopped.
“Listening to the album is an intentionally dark experience but there’s no sense of contrivance or insincerity and there’s a lot to admire in the complexity of song structure and harmony. ‘My Radio Star’ and ‘Nautical Song’ in particular, are stunningly accomplished and demonstrate hallmarks of the band’s sound. Eleven…is an overwhelmingly enjoyable and notably competent debut and shows a band with an intricate understanding of their own style. The challenge will be to go even better than this in future.
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