Midlake - Antiphon [Official Music Video]

[@jomarthegreat1]

this tune (and basically the first half of this album) is required listening for me. daily.

[@lawrencepopiel7949]

Wow, this song blows me away. Everything - melody, guitars, vocals and that fantastic bass. As a listener it envelopes me in mysterious wonder, and as a musician inspires me to reach ever higher.

[@alvaromiguel]

Epic song, epic bass line... WOW!

[@WilliamGacquer]

Still only 126 630 views. I can't believe it. It desserves much much more! Midlake guys, please continue, you'll soon get massive audience just because of your talent.

[@stefanopellegrini7094]

Before listening to it I thought it was just going to be a regular album (because of Tim's departure, bla bla), but it became instantly one of my fav albums from this year! Thanks Midlake!

[@jakehawes6387]

These guys are good! They almost sound like a cross between fleet foxes and tame impala.

[@antlop8721]

I love this band. Denton texas

[@brendanhayes2853]

Unbelievable mesmeric music; I hadn't been to a live gig for years...how all six musicians created such a deep clear sound. Amazing! This was their gig in Dolan's Limerick.

[@Venivincere]

Never heard of them before today. WOW. Just amazing.

[@roniswtf]

Mesmerizing.

[@jnburch]

love it, hope you guys can squeeze in a Houston show on the tour.

[@magnuspi]

See you this sunday in Amsterdam ! Love the new songs.

[@mikenice8220]

2:20 wow bass player and drummer really go at it!!

[@marianasouza4394]

my gosh, i just can't explain how i love it. come to brazil, pleeaase o//

[@vintagerumors]

I love this album, and I hope that other records will come out soon

[@ryankearns8773]

So much good music today. --- Although there is a LOAD of shit, there's still so much to be proud about. The Folk/Psychedelic scenes and artists that have emerged in our generation are legit.

[@KieranMcCarthy]

Love the video and superb track... looking forward to the live gig at Vicar St. Dublin in the New Year ;)

[@RM-lj8bv]

Love their music, The song, The Old and the young is very good.

[@Imphepho]

Amazing video...love this band!

[@thomash.thomsen2909]

Beautiful, atmospheric video and song. Streamed the entire album last night, and I'm one happy fan :-). Writing a review that I'll post very soon.

[@drwps.]

welp am still listening, Midlake. no matter how far you guys been, this album is just another amazing work of you! thank God for letting me know Midlake. looking forward for your next amazing project! 😼😼😼

[@Pcrimson1]

Hope you're digging "Bethel Woods". Yes, they don't release music as quickly as we'd like, but when they do, awesome! I'm 62, when old farts complain about how new music sucks, its because they are too lazy to look...

[@drwps.]

@@Pcrimson1 yes im still digging it! like the previous one, the album had me to turn it on again and again before letting myself "in". ☺️ wow 62 and you have a good taste. long you live, happy your life i hope, man!

[@maddywalker]

what A SONG!!! Midlake = Amazing!!

[@music-radar]

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[@jokermane1]

great song!!

[@dereksmallsuk]

I like this!

[@mobber10]

tame impala / flaming lips vibe... good stuff

[@poodlepaul]

Jeg er blevet forelsket. Og jeg glæder mig til at se jer næste weekend. Kærligst, Roscoe.

[@Richcanvas]

Brilliant.

[@RockinCowgirl1000]

Fleet Foxes meets Pink Floyd describes this sound perfectly.

[@faunoram]

alucinante !

[@ShengyingXu]

first listened to them back in 2006...

[@tomshaw6373]

Clément Loewenthal Such anger. Need to get that checked out. We're on speck floating around a much larger speck amid trillions of other specks.

[@Youcantleavethisempty01]

Tom Shaw Please explain. I can't hear you two over this haze of bullshit. Looking forward to a video in reply. Thanks.

[@Mangitata]

shit help im addicted to this song

[@theresak.7475]

GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!

[@tomshaw6373]

Sheer Brilliance.

[@kpec3]

i really love the richness of the chords in this song. what is Antiphon? is it a name? i must find out…

[@dikeroc]

It's a Greek word meaning a chanting sung consequently by two different chanters usually in religious ceremonies.

[@kpec3]

Oh ok. Thanks for the response. I'm Christian, and probably should avoid religious chants. Maybe it's ok. No, I'd better be safe.

[@jomarthegreat1]

***** an antiphon can be as simple as a call and response. (the last couple words in the song kind of allude to it, actually...) for example, in a Catholic church service, when the reader reads and then pauses, the congregation usually says the response. Antiphons need not be solely religious chants or call/responses, though.

[@theresak.7475]

I believe this song purposes to call-out the religious hypocrisy of churches such as the Russian Orthodox church - with their emotionally attractive and ornate-sounding, antiphon music singing choirs; gold-embroidered robes, and other "impressive", outward "show" trappings - but who then teach anti-scriptural, deceptive LIES; and practice and promote God and Christ-condemned EVIL works, to the service of Satan - such as to go "fight a war" (and to ban and persecute TRUE Christians!) I understand that sentiment. I actually wanted to learn the mode of this antiphon music, to write a song in opposition to the lies and evil being worked by some of these churches; but then I just now discovered that someone else has already done such a thing! Bravo!!!!! "Babylon the Great has fallen!" (It's not the mode of chant music in itself that's bad - but the messages or purposes of it can be bad. This song hijacks that mode, to send a truthful message [at least, that's how I understand this song].)

[@omerfarukerceylan3005]

Abi on numarasiniz ya!

[@TheSilkycrab]

Glad my volume goes to 11!

[@rhetwylie1786]

"Man, these guys play guitars and make rock music; I can't believe the audacity with which they plagiarize the beatles." - Said no "Thinking" person ever

[@Tony-yg6bz]

I love this band more than I love most people haha

[@UsernameJones]

groovy

[@fishofdopeness]

Killer bassline.

[@paulalexander3332]

Mckenzie killing it

[@robberesford4741]

Listen from 2.30 and you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to something from the earlier days of Yes. Bands often draw inspiration from multiple sources, in the process, doing something different to make it their own. This does not mean they are any more or any less creative than those they borrowed inspiration from. Only discovered this band today after discovering another band I'd never heard of, White Denim. It's nice to see that decent bands still exist because the likes of Miley Cyrus and that flipping tongue had me thinking good music was becoming a distant memory :(

[@ShengyingXu]

+Clément Loewenthal sorry to have ruined your listening... what i really meant was, "it's been many years since I last heard their music, and listening to them now take me right back to 2006, the year I first listened to them, also a very special year for me" thanks you +Tom Shaw !

[@Ksjunn2o9b]

yes! i was thinking tame impala/junip/midlakes old stuff lol

[@mahatmacote6478]

What's going on with them, a band with great songs and potential but i don't hear anything new

[@raffaelecioffi5910]

non so voi, ma a me come ritmo, specie la batteria, ricordano i king crimson del periodo fine anni 60

[@whitebread8381]

thats a real toe tapper

[@JamesTCork]

It's quite ok, but this album awfully misses Tim Smith to put a wee bit of soul in it. I was looking forward to Seven Long Suns, too bad... Good luck for the future

[@moonchildtheking5008]

god song

[@hudanur.]

ben bunu son albümden sanıyodum tarzı çok benziyo

[@serkanovat]

aynen

[@Youcantleavethisempty01]

Mouth breathers.

[@1Sanantoniomatute]

ooh that sad little twat who thinks this sounds like the beatles (and listens to 'keane', dear god, how that makes me laugh). No, if at all, this might glean from bands where the musicians could actually play: CREAM, BLIND FAITH, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD...down the Jethro Tull. But to be honest, these incredibly talented jazz musicians (Midlake) make rock like no other.

[@maddywalker]

heeeeey!!!! I listen to keane too!! you can´t put all the people in same bag for that! There will always be brainless ones!! Forgetting that, I agree with you in all the rest >:D

[@highestsettings]

If you seriously believe that the Beatles can't play, then you're an idiot. Especially when you then list Cream and Buffalo Springfield as if those musicians can play better. They can play incredibly well, they chose to make simple music, because simplicity offers it's own charm. Taste is subjective, however the fact that the Beatles are good musicians is an objective fact, regardless of whether you like their music or not. Anyway you take music way too seriously, it's just sounds not a religion.

[@ncalzolaio4830]

I read "keane" as Kanye!!! HAHA!

[@Roon108]

the mustache? lol

[@Ksjunn2o9b]

this isn't copying the beatles in any way… inspired by would be the correct word, but personally I don't hear the beatles AT ALL.

[@soppoi123]

They sound like The Bees. Unfortunately the new album is boring except for the first 3 songs.

[@ThomasJakobMusic]

ughh why does everyone feel the need to copy the Beatles

[@dj.dorski7677]

Repetitive dated and cliche. Will have to listen to some macklemore and ryan lewis to waken up. One love

[@tomshaw6373]

Thank you oh brilliant and knowing one who has such feeling.

[@dj.dorski7677]

just because I dont like this dirge does not mean I am without feeling. That would be like me calling you a bitter old queen for your catty sarcasm. Then again !

[@Youcantleavethisempty01]

How does one "waken up?" Please explain. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks.

[@dj.dorski7677]

you can't leave this empty no need to just ask your husband

[@Youcantleavethisempty01]

Don't have one. When can you come oveR?

[@burgeyburgful]

What makes you think this is copying the Beatles?

[@BohemianConspiracy]

yeah it's a kinda ridiculous statement...it's even more sounding like Yes around 1970 than the beatles... but imo it's more fleet foxes meet early Pink Floyd... even if it is just distant comparisons of course... Midlake new sound is original enough on it's own...

[@omerfarukerceylan3005]

Abi on numarasiniz ya!