Prog

MISERY LOVES COMPANY

“[Our music] is a hard thing to describe and misery prog, for those in the prog-know, is the best I can come up with.”
Rowan Burns

“I don’t think we went into it planning to make a heavier album,” says vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Heaton about Cold Waves Divide Us, the fifth album from Midas Fall. Since 2018’s Evaporate, the Scottish proggy post-rockers have expanded into a trio, with touring bassist Michael Hamilton joining Heaton and guitarist Rowan Burns. The sound may be heavier and more expansive than ever, but the writing process that produced their current record stretches back to Evaporate.

“There wasn’t really a gap in the writing. We carried on, it’s just taken a long time,” says Heaton. “I don’t write because I need to

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