Reviews
Ranked #7 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "Its charms revealed themselves slowly, and it had a great musical depth because of that.", "These new old-sounding songs gradually burrow into your consciousness....With repeated listens, COURAGE achieves a dourly purposeful clarity.", "Album opener 'Acts Of Man' sounds like a medieval CS&Y with delicate flute weaving around Tim Smith's understated delivery.", "Midlake has moved into more complex territory with THE COURAGE OF OTHERS, making forward-thinking folk music that is at once both universal and privately felt.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "The pristine harmonies are retained, but this time they're hitched to aching minor-key progressions...", "An unrelenting but beautiful melancholy forms the glut of COURAGE. Beauty is key here, especially with a song like 'Bring Down'..."
