black midi are gearing up for the release of their new album Cavalcade, out May 28th on Rough Trade, with lead single & video, “John L.” Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019).
It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely and deeply not just from rock and jazz, but hip hop, electronic dance music, classical, ambient, prog, experimental and beyond, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early achievements. “John L” has a massive sound and is driven by some gutsy Discipline-era King Crimson thrust.
B-side “Despair” will only be available digitally and on this very special and limited 12”.