The phrases “avant-garde improvisational noise rock” and “hot new buzz band” don’t often show up next to each other in the same sentence. But they’re hard to avoid when discussing London’s Black Midi, an adventurous group that’s somehow broken through over the last couple years to become one of the most hyped acts in the U.K.
Named after the literally unplayable digital music phenomenon of cascading, inhumanly sequenced piano notes, black midi have quickly become the new UK guitar band at the tip of everyones’ tongues.
