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Introducing The Middle East

I stumbled onto The Middle East about a month ago.  Their album The Recordings Of The Middle East got lost in the shuffle and I only really started listening to it about a week ago.  I'm deeply obsessed.  You know how you need to discover some bands at a specific time of the year, this album is perfect for the fall, for mornings where the sun is fighting through the clouds, for late afternoons when the sun falls faster and earlier than before....you need this album for these times. 

There is little to no information about this band on the internet.  I know that they are from Townsville , Queensland, Australia.  The band is comprised of two brothers, Joe and Jord Ireland, Bree Tranter, Javed Steritt, Rohin Jones, Mark Myers and Tim Barwise.  The play shows in and around AUD, and may or may not have broken up and reformed recently.  

The Middle East have been described as a post rock band by a couple blogs, but I find them to be much more epic than that.  I hear so many different influences in their music, Pig Food is reminescent of a more ambient Sigur Ros, but I also hear traces of Galaxie 500, Low, The Arcade Fire and Red House Painters.  Their music teeters in being frail and desolate to epic and grandiose.

Check their myspace (link above) to sample their tunes.  Below you'll find a tour diary that the band made.  The live footage looks incredible.

The Middle East tour part1