If I did a track of the week feature, The Middle East’s ‘Blood’ might well be it (this or The Sound of Arrows). Brittle, beautiful and tinged with melancholic lyrics offset by a literally joyous chorus, ‘Blood’ is a revelation.
The Middle East are from Queensland, Australia and I’m kicking myself I didn’t catch them when we were in Melbourne during the summer as they were playing while we were there. About three different people told me to go see them but the gig was a bit far out and we already had plans on the night.
Better late than never. Nice to meet your acquaintance.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
beautiful
This song made a welcome return to my brain early this week and I had it on repeat again for a bit. It’s brilliant stuff. Shame you didn’t see them that time.
I put another song of theirs up a while ago along with ‘Blood’. It’s called ‘Pig Food’, which is also quite brilliant and very different.
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Love, love, love this! Thank you. xoxo
Hey, thanks – awesome. Just saw this song play on Rage and had to find it.