“We didn’t have the luxury to do that on the second album, because we were on tour.
“It’s been fun to amass a specific rollout, something that feels very world-building,” Duddy says. The promotional rollout for The Last Resort expands that idea, including a stylized digital magazine touting the mythical Last Resort Hotel & Day Spa, and a full-fledged throwback “infomercial” created by Cameron and Collin Duddy, with Midland guitarist Luke Cutchen in a starring role. Midland Brings LA's Palomino Back to Life for Smoke-Filled Neon Night of Musicįrom the start, the visual component has been an integral element of Midland’s brand. Two of us would just go in there and yell a harmony along with what Mark was singing.” It was more of a very loose version of a Rolling Stones harmony back then. It is interesting how there is a through line, and a lot of the DNA of what we strive to accomplish was there in the Sonic Ranch recordings. In March, they released Midland: The Sonic Ranch Documentary with an accompanying soundtrack compiled from those early sessions.Ĭarson says, “Unearthing that Sonic Ranch stuff, we weren’t listening to that over the years, so it was very much a new discovery for us too. “That’s the fun of it all, right? You can hear all of those influences, but it’s also the ability to make it our own sound.”Īs Midland’s members fashioned the new EP, they simultaneously retraced their 2014 origin story when they recorded together at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas. “We were writing with acoustic guitars and that one somehow started as a George Strait song and in the studio, with that 12-string intro, it immediately started feeling like some Tom Petty or some Don Henley,” Wystrach says. “Take Her Off Your Hands” simmers down the honky-tonk scenario, as the song’s protagonist hopes to dance with a woman who is being ignored by her date. “That recording and arrangement is a straight tip of the hat to ZZ Top.” “That was us having a little bit of optimism that we were going to be playing live shows soon,” Wystrach says.
Maybe they end up married, you don’t know.” I thought it could tell a little more of a serious story that was more open-ended. “I remember her saying she felt it could be a song about waking up after a party when maybe you’re hung over. “That was a title that Jessi had,” Carson says. Carson penned the first release from the EP, “Sunrise Tells the Story,” with Jessi Alexander and Aaron Raitiere. The group reunited with producers Dann Huff, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne. We co-wrote probably 25 or 30 songs in the last year,” he continues. “When we had to sit around for a year, we realized that the one thing that we truly loved to do was think about writing music and writing songs. But then the pandemic hit and those songs were replaced with new ones. Writing for the second album was so strange, because we were in transit the whole time,” Duddy tells Billboard. It’s done.’ We had songs that we couldn’t fit on the second album. “At the very beginning of 2020, we were like, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve got the third album in the bag. Midland takes another step forward in their sonic progression Friday as they release the five-song EP The Last Resort via Big Machine Records, marking their first project of new material in two years. Watch Midland Take on Joe Exotic's 'Tiger King' Hit, 'I Saw a Tiger'
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