INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD.

Malcolm Middleton

You’re going to wonder how someone is able to pair super dark lyrics about death and despair with music that has all the elements of positivity and happiness. Stupid me tapped my toes to the song Steps and hummed gleefully along until I listened carefully to the words about desperate loneliness and mortality (frequent themes!). But no matter what the focus of Middleton’s outlet, what he produces is as beautiful as it is eclectic. Still, brooding songs like The Ballad of Fuck All stand in stark contrast to the Post Punk hammering of We’re All Going To Die. My favorite thing ever is that the dark humor of the British almost made that song the #1 Christmas song on the charts in 2007. Favorite for a joke or not, the song as excellent as any others he makes and it makes you forget that it’s about leaving the Earth the way you came. Maybe the dichotomy of music and lyrics is meant to represent our outward projections of self contrasted with inner turmoil. I’m not the one to answer that, but it sounds pretty profound in a 1st year psych major sort of a way. Stupid Malcolm Middleton making me overthink things.