When I first heard the British band black midi, I thought they were interesting but not interesting enough to keep listening. Not this time. With their new record Cavalcade, the band has pushed their strange, esoteric form of music that avoids genre almost completely. It is heavy. It is pretty. It is odd in structure and time signature. It is equal parts strange and satisfying. The low end drone that pervades behind the first track “John L” creates a powerfully full palate for the choppy guitar strums, start-and-stop song structure, rigid time signatures, and madness to violently dance on top of. There are free jazz and punk and ambient influences. There are Minutemen influences. There are Primus influences. Perhaps even Meat Puppets influences. Dry vocals become blown out by delay. All of...
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