Nowhere Near Today, the debut EP by Cardiff-based five-piece Midding, is out today as a limited edition 12″ and across all digital services. Recorded to an 8-track Tascam 488MKII, both at home and in a studio facility located in a disused shopping centre, and entirely self-produced and mixed, the five tracks channel the band’s Spector-inspired ambitions in a way that skirts the edges of psych, noise-rock and industrial-pop in ways that feel overtly their own.
For a debut, the results are impressively realised, a confluence of expansive tremolo guitars, a deliberately primitive rhythm section and a contrasting vulnerable vocal performance that’s both melodic and bracing. It’s a record born both of private experimentation and public performance, who they are on stage and what they express on record informing the other but still distinctly each their own thing, shifting then dovetailing like the waves of feedback that wash through Nowhere Near Today. First steps they may be, but Midding feel uniquely fully realised right out the gate.
Nowhere Near Today is released digitally and as a limited 12″ EP in an edition of 300. Buy/stream/download here. The band play a series of shows in the UK in February and March, and will also be recording a session for 6Music on 18th Feb.
Live dates
Feb 15th – SWN Spotlight – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
Feb 28th – Rough Trade Recommends @ Rough Trade East, London
Mar 19th – Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Mar 21st – Just Dropped In, Coventry
Mar 22nd – Big Hands, Manchester
Mar 23rd – Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Mar 27th – The Exchange, Bristol
Mar 28th – Shacklewell Arms, London
Credits
Mastering by Mikey Young
Photo & video by Sam Stevens
Artwork by Matthew Walkerdine
