The Texas quintet will be performing at Vicar St. in Dublin on 14 February 2010, while shortly after making their long-awaited recording return in February 2010 with their third album, The Courage of Others.

Tickets for the show are €23 and go on sale Friday 6 November at 9am. They will be available through Ticketmaster and other usual outlets nationwide (Booking Line: 0818 719 390).

While the band's second album, The Trials of Van Occupanther, was in part inspired by the soft(er) rock of the early-to-mid 1970s (from Neil Young and America to Fleetwood Mac), Midlake’s new album also looks to a slightly earlier, and definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound. It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as Van Occupanther but it’s a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier.

The Courage Of Others will be released on Bella Union Records on 1st February 2010.

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