How can you predict who a band will be influenced by, or what they might end up sounding like? Middleman, still in their early 20s and very much embedded in the London punk scene, have a sound shaped by American punk and rock bands that had mostly burned out or imploded before they were even born. They embody that slight wonkiness found in greats like Mission Of Burma; that otherness, suggesting that something is slightly off, on edge. An uneasiness that proposes something is not quite, right. In that spirit Middleman have today released the John Dillinger Died For You EP, that takes its name from The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. As with their previous release, it was recorded at Walthamstow’s Fuzzbrain Studios, an increasingly important breeding ground for emerging bands i...