Welcome to Beandon’s Musical Corner, the only place on campus for in-depth, exhaustive reviews of the latest releases in rock, jazz, experimental…and pretty much everything else. Brandon Rupp (also ...

In the summer of 2018, when live clips started circulating of an impossibly young London quartet performing unimaginably complicated arrangements with an equally unimaginable precision, they looked ...

black midi have announced their third album, Hellfire, which will be out July 15 via Rough Trade. (Preorder on clear red vinyl.) “If Cavalcade was a drama, Hellfire is like an epic action film,” says ...

The British trio’s third studio album is a virtuosic exploration of brutality that showcases its technical mastery, expanded orchestrations and sardonic humor. By Jon Pareles War, disease, murder, ...

A black midi album can be a thrill ride, and the very same black midi album can feel like homework. It all depends on your headspace. The first time I listened to the band's new Hellfire I was pretty ...

It’s difficult to describe exactly the way listening to black midi makes me feel. It’s even trickier to describe exactly what they sound like in general. Despite taking influence from progressive, ...

black midi have announced details of a new album. The U.K. trio's follow-up to 2021 album Cavalcade is titled Hellfire and is due on July 15 via Rough Trade Records. Today's announcement comes with ...

Improvisation was always key to black midi, right down to the news of their hiatus. “black midi was an interesting band that’s indefinitely over” Geordie Greep wrote in a comment on Instagram Live ...

Ahead of their upcoming third album, Hellfire, Black Midi has released their new song, “Sugar/Tzu.” “Sugar/Tzu” is a conceptual track, telling the story of two boxers in the far future, over a jazzy ...

London-based rock group black midi re-enters Billboard‘s Emerging Artists chart (dated July 30) at No. 1, leading for the first time thanks to the arrival of its third studio album, Hellfire. The LP, ...

Things kick off with a title track that comes across like brass band-backed hip hop with hurried and hectic vocals before delving into an amalgam of big band jazz and atonal noise in “Sugar/Tzu”. “Eat ...