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The Middle East – ‘Blood’

January 6, 2009 New Music Posted by: Tom McMullan 8 Comments

The Middle East - ‘Blood’

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I feel like Arcade Fire comparisons have been overused in music reviews over the past whenever, so I’m going to do my best to not compare The Middle East to Montreal’s finest.

It’s tough though, because this Townsville (QLD) collective do fit the criteria, at least initially – a large collection of musicians (at least 6, possibly 7) who create dramatic and climactic folk-ish anthems. Plus, if the Arcade Fire released this song, it would’ve got a whole lot more attention than it has so far, because it’s really fucking amazing.

‘Blood’ was released as part of Spunk Records’ ‘Singles Club’, a succession of ten seven inches from unsigned bands released weekly from November to January. They’ve all been pretty great, and should be available together on a compilation sometime in Feb.

www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast

Currently there are "8 comments" on this Article:

Sophie Benjamin says:

January 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Really loved this. Townsville… would would have thought?
Jerry Soer says:

January 8, 2009 at 11:12 pm

GREAT find!
Jeronimus says:

February 18, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Heard this song on FBI today -
startlingly good.
Judith says:

March 4, 2009 at 4:09 pm

I saw these guys play at East Brunswick Club last friday. They were excellent!
Who The Bloody Hell Are They? - New Australian Music blog » Blog Archive says:

May 14, 2009 at 11:38 am

[...] are some fantastic bands coming out of regional Australia at the moment. The Middle East (Townsville, QLD) are playing Splendour, Ellington (Tannum Sands, QLD) have signed a publishing [...]
organic sandy says:

July 19, 2009 at 5:18 pm

this song is totally organic i love it more than i do organic beetroot!
Mike says:

August 3, 2009 at 10:24 pm

Perhaps the greatest song in the history of music.
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