With the assistance of the vaudevillian and the dramatic, Black Midi have curated their most ambitious (and skillfully crafted) album yet. Hellfire’s primary strength comes from the band ...

Ahead of their upcoming third album, Hellfire, Black Midi has released their new song, “Sugar/Tzu.” “Sugar/Tzu” is a conceptual track, telling the story of two boxers in the far future ...

But make no mistake, Hellfire is a work of real world ambition, both musically and conceptually, a disorienting epic that gets much of its mileage out of constantly wriggling away before you can ...

and the very same black midi album can feel like homework. It all depends on your headspace. The first time I listened to the band’s new Hellfire I was pretty sure I hated it. The second time ...

Framed by a deluge of wonky, unkempt riffs and a salvo of troubled beats, the action-packed behemoth is perhaps ‘Hellfire’’s most engrossing listen. A band as stylistically limber as Black ...

With Hellfire, black midi’s knack for creating a cinematic fantasy stands out most clearly. Nowhere is this more evident than on single ‘Eat Men Eat’, which distills a gay Western epic down ...

Ultimately, the unique thing about Black Midi is that despite the shock of their sound – an all-things-at-once post-genre party – Hellfire manages to retain a strange and hypnotic cohesion.

For most people, there could well be a new nominee to this list in Black Midi’s Hellfire album – a joyously chaotic and frequently almost unlistenable racket that will no doubt eventually join the ...