Midlake Look Back At "Days Gone By" In Pensive Single and Sun-Soaked Music Video

MIDLAKE LOOK BACK AT “DAYS GONE BY”

WITH MEDITATIVE NEW SINGLE AND

SUN-SOAKED VISUAL

 

SPELLBINDING OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO STARS

EMMY AWARD-NOMINATED ACTOR JAMES LANCE (TED LASSO, BLACK MIRROR);

WITH CHOREOGRAPHY BY PHIL COGAN (HAMILTON)

– WATCH

 

EAGERLY AWAITED SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM, A BRIDGE TO FAR,

PRODUCED BY SAM EVIAN AND FEATURES SPECIAL GUEST VOCALS

FROM MADISON CUNNINGHAM, HANNAH COHEN, AND MEG LUI

 

A BRIDGE TO FAR ARRIVES VIA MIDLAKE RECORDS/BELIEVE

ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

 

PRE-ORDERS/PRE-SAVES AVAILABLE NOW

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Midlake have shared “Days Gone By,” the latest single from their eagerly awaited sixth studio album, A Bridge To Far. The deeply meditative track – which juxtaposes personal struggle with the eternal rhythm of the natural world – is joined by a spellbinding official music video premiering today on YouTube.

Directed by filmmaker Taylor McFadden and produced by Lavinia Jones Wright (co-founders of the production company I Play Different, whose mission is to center female-driven storytelling) and starring Emmy Award-nominated actor James Lance (Ted Lasso, Black Mirror, Toast of London) with choreography by Phil Cogan (Hamilton), the sun-soaked “Days Gone By” visual captures an end-of-summer ceremony – part celebration, part melancholy – where one man’s movement, from quiet contemplation to joyous exaltation, stirs the soul towards the ever changing nature of our existence.

 

“I saw Midlake play London’s Roundhouse in 2023,” says James Lance. “The communion between the band and the crowd was divine. The way Eric Pulido tenderly sang ‘Noble’, their ode to McKenzie Smith’s boy, so tenderly tipped me over the edge. It was love. I thought, Trent Crimm, the character I play in Ted Lasso, would be a Midlake fan so I bought a merch T-shirt for Trent to sport somewhere on the show. A little shout out... If you know Midlake, then you know, and Trent Crimm knows. A ripple of joy for Midlake fans and a friendship with McKenzie Smith began through voice notes on fatherhood, music, and everything else. One day, Midlake’s manager, Zach Hundley, kindly invited me to a Willie Nelson concert, where I met Taylor McFadden, our talented director of this video, and I found myself welcomed into this community of sweethearts. I remember thinking I’ve met my people. This all happened because of the love I felt swirling around The Roundhouse for a magical boy called Noble. This video is an invocation...a remembering to dance with the sun, and the moon and the skies.”

 

“For ‘Days Gone By’ we wanted to capture the feeling of making a choice to leave one life behind and opening yourself up to new possibilities,” says director Taylor McFadden. “We worked with choreographer Phil Colgan (Hamilton, & Juliet) to express the power of processing an emotional state through the body.  The choreography pays homage to classics like Gene Kelly’s famous Singing in the Rain scene, a man so in love that he can’t help but dance through the streets of the city. We chose to film at a unique cross street in New York’s Lower East Side, with backdrops of an elevated subway train and the city skyline, a location that could complement the choreography while also acting as a metaphor for being at a crossroads in life. We chose to shoot on an iPhone to create a feeling of intimacy, capturing each movement up close and personal. We choreographed the camera and the dance to work in tandem with each other. Filming in one take allows the entire experience to be fully expressed without interruption.  Due to the location and complexity of the choreography, we knew we had to work with natural light timed to the exact moment of the morning golden hour…the sun then became another character in our scene that we could work and play with in line with his movements. This piece is about self-expression, and allowing yourself to bare it all even in the most public of settings…that moving through the difficult moments can often lead us to a surprising new state of love and joy.”

 

LISTEN TO “DAYS GONE BY” 

WATCH “DAYS GONE BY” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE A BRIDGE TO FAR

A Bridge To Far arrives via Midlake Records/Believe on Friday, November 7. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. Produced by Sam Evian (Big Thief, Hannah Cohen, Cass McCombs) at The Echo Lab in Midlake’s hometown of Denton, TX, the album was first heralded earlier this summer with the acclaimed first single, “The Ghouls,” available everywhere now alongside an official music video streaming now at YouTube. Written during a period of uncertainty about the iconic psych-folk band’s future, the track was met by worldwide attention from such outlets as SPIN, UNCUT, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Dallas Observer, The Line of Best Fit, Americana UK, and FLOOD, the latter of which which hailed it as “a psych-rock collage built around skittering guitar melodies and a drum groove with so many ghost notes you might as well call it Casper.”

 

LISTEN TO “THE GHOULS” 

WATCH “THE GHOULS” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

Midlake will celebrate the arrival of A Bridge To Far with a number of upcoming home state live dates, including a top-billed performance at Amarillo, TX’s Hoodoo Mural Festival (September 27) and exclusive headline shows at Austin, TX’s Central Machine Works (November 14) and Fort Worth, TX’s Tulips (November 15). Additional dates will be announced. For updates and ticket information, please visit midlakeband.com/tour.

 

MIDLAKE - LIVE 2025

 

SEPTEMBER

27 – Amarillo, TX - Hoodoo Mural Festival †

 

NOVEMBER

14 – Austin, TX - Central Machine Works

15 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips

22 – Los Angeles, CA – The Lodge Room

 

† FESTIVAL APPEARANCE

 

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