Noosa: A surfboard store at Noosa will be the perfect backdrop for some froths and tunes when psych-jazz outfit Mildlife stop by Thomas Surfboards on Friday.
The board store has held a few live music shows at the venue, previously welcoming the likes of Great Sage, Floodlights and Cupid.
Midlife will have a new single in tow, “Return to Centaurus”, when they tour the country.
Presenting a mixture of chillers and floor-movers amidst acoustic and electronic instrumentation, the song marks the band’s first new material since the release of their lauded, ARIA Award-winning 2020 second studio album, Automatic.
Opening with droning synths and a wall of horizontal, Kraftwerk-esque vocoders, the song evolves from psych-space rock into a gloriously hook-heavy acid funk meltdown over the course of its ten minute-long trip time.
Luxuriating in loping, velvet-draped bass lines, sparkling, funk-laced guitar riffs and intricate, morphological percussion, it distils Mildlife’s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms of 70s cosmic-sounds, owing as much as it does to Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane as it does Ennio Morricone and Giorgio Moroder.
In the past 18 months, the Melbourne-based demon-groove kings have performed more than 100 shows in 23 different countries, performing with Arctic Monkeys, Khruangbin, Parcels, Kamasi Washington, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
They have also captured the souls and enamoured crowds with euphoric festival sets at Splendour in the Grass, Pitch Music & Arts Festival, and Desert Daze.
Widely-beloved and critically-celebrated, Sunny Coast locals can get a taste of Midlife when they bring their riotously loose-limbed and award-winning performance to Noosaville.
Midlife plays at Thomas Surfboards on Friday, November 3, from 7pm.
Tickets: https://tickets.oztix.com.au.
Thomas Surfboards is at 4 Project Ave, Noosaville, Sunshine Coast.
