Midlake Share Video for New Music “The Calling”
A Bridge To Far Due Out November 7 by way of Midlake Data / Imagine
Oct 10, 2025
Midlake are releasing a brand new album, A Bridge To Far, on November 7 by way of Midlake Data / Imagine. Now they’ve shared one other new track from it, “The Calling,” by way of a music video. Watch it under.
“I actually appreciated the place we landed with ‘The Calling,’” says singer/guitarist Eric Pulido in a press launch. “A driving vibe that opens up properly with the horn part Jesse and Sam devised so completely. Lyrically, the track has to do with my very own battle with making use of myself in direction of a given effort; denying or embracing that which we have been made to do.”
Musician/producer Sam Evian (Massive Thief, Hannah Cohen, Cass McCombs) produced A Bridge To Far, which was recorded at The Echo Lab in Midlake’s hometown of Denton, TX.
Beforehand Midlake shared the album’s first single, “The Ghouls,” by way of a music video. It was one among our Songs of the Week.
“The Ghouls” was written when the band was uncertain about its future, however the track helped encourage the band to proceed on. “It helped us construct songs collectively once more,” says Pulido in a press launch, “and hopefully encourages others to wish to hear the total assortment.”
Of the band’s future standing, Pulido provides: “We love each other. It’s nonetheless a problem to carve out time with all that’s occurring in our lives, however once we’re ready, it’s a cherished expertise.”
The album options visitor vocals from Madison Cunningham, Hannah Cohen, and Meg Lui, however Pulido says it’s nonetheless unmistakably a Midlake LP.
“The reference and inspiration is Midlake. This album is much less about referencing another person’s sound and extra about sounding like us,” he says. “The album title and monitor, not a typo, explores the hope, perception and supreme path to one thing or someplace larger, regardless of the circumstances. Escapism is usually a double edged sword however the need is to encourage it for good. Making this document with the band and producer Sam Evian at Echo Lab was an incredible expertise and the proper match for these songs. To only play within the room collectively and seize an genuine interpretation of songs is a good pleasure and on this album we did simply that. Stylistically there’s familiarity in locations we’ve been as a band previously in addition to new locations. Thanks for sticking with us in spite of everything these years, or for locating us for the primary time…we’re nonetheless right here and grateful for that and a lot extra.”
Midlake’s final album was 2022’s For the Sake of Bethel Woods, which was their first new studio album in over eight years.
In 2023 Midlake teamed up with John Grant for 2 new songs: “Roadrunner Blues” and “You Don’t Get To” (which was one among our Songs of the Week).