Midlake Share Video for New Tune “The Calling”
A Bridge To Far Due Out November 7 through Midlake Data / Consider
Oct 10, 2025
Midlake are releasing a brand new album, A Bridge To Far, on November 7 through Midlake Data / Consider. Now they’ve shared one other new music from it, “The Calling,” through a music video. Watch it under.
“I actually favored 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 music 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 (Huge 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,” through a music video. It was one in every of our Songs of the Week.
“The Ghouls” was written when the band was not sure about its future, however the music 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 complete 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 happening in our lives, however after we’re in a position, 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 higher, regardless of the circumstances. Escapism could be a double edged sword however the want is to encourage it for good. Making this document with the band and producer Sam Evian at Echo Lab was an amazing expertise and the proper match for these songs. To simply play within the room collectively and seize an genuine interpretation of songs is a superb pleasure and on this album we did simply that. Stylistically there’s familiarity in locations we’ve been as a band up to now 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 in every of our Songs of the Week).
