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Middle Kids self-titled EP feels like a sunny homage to being young, wild, and free. With guitar melodies that make you feel like sand waiting to be washed by waves, you almost want to sink in to their five-track wonder. In life, we all can feel like Middle Kids trying to escape their odd positioning in life.
Middle Kids – Never Start (Official Video)

Never Start

Middle Kids made a smart choice in titling their album by their band’s name, because in five songs they explain the specific meaning behind their group title. Deciding a band name is like picking your future wife or husband, and asserting there will never be a divorce. It can have the same emotional weight as changing your last name for marriage because your identity has transformed and partnered with someone/ something else. Thus, Middle Kids did not just “pick” this name for simple fun. It also signifies the gnawing desire to go beyond the boxes and predicaments others place us in, along with the weird in-between that is never being “first” or “last”. It seems in life that only extremes are defined, while most of us feel in the middle. Songs like “Never Start” and “Edge of Town” combine folk-rock and pop to breed a fresh sense of emotionality that discusses the internal life of us “middlers”. Both are dedicated to Middle Kids’ desire to go “somewhere”, while presuming that that “somewhere” is better. Yet Middle Kids write lyrics that show how powerful the desire for change can be that you might not care whether things go right or wrong. Maybe, you just want them to go. It may be wrong to feel that way, but it can be natural. Through a waning electric guitar, even the exhilaration of songs like “Your Love”, which carries a bouncing up-tempo, shows signs of spiritual exhaustion. Wanting to be more can be a draining sentiment to which Middle Kids definitely elaborate in slower, lulling track like, “Do It Right”.
Middle Kids – Edge of Town

Edge Of Town

Hannah Joy has mature, masterful vocals to ooze passion and pensiveness no matter what pacing of a song. In “Old River” she transitions from soft and wandering annotations to a combustive, “tour de force” style that shows, vocally, she has a wide range of emotion. She reminds me of a modern Alanis Morrisette bringing forth the charm and damage of being young and feeling inhibited. Such a capacity is what makes Middle Kids an album/group for those who dream of being first. Their music can make you dance in sorrow or strength, but the point is that sometimes in life, no matter what, you want to keep moving. For More Information On Middle Kids and To Buy Middle Kids Click Here.