Cloudspeakers

Boy, midlake's Tim Smith wasn't joking when he said that his band's third album -- and first since breaking bigger with 2006's breathtaking, Fleetwood Mac-inspired Trials of Van Occupanther -- was inspired by the affected antiquities of late-'60s/early-'70s British folk rock. At first blush, The Courage of Others sounds like a too somber, self-serious simulacrum of a borderline-silly genre -- m... Read more