NEW SINGLE – “Sunrise Tells the Story”
The songs on Midland’s three studio albums range from fun, party anthems to aching heartbreak songs to songs about falling in love. No matter what the subject matter, lead singer Mark Wystrach says he definitely revisits the emotions that inspired those songs when he performs them live. “You always need to go into that place,” says Mark. “You need to populate that story, and it is recalling – maybe not consciously, sometimes it is subconscious.”
But for Mark, getting back into the emotion and the headspace of each song isn’t necessarily something he actively has to think about. “I feel like if the song is written well enough, the music will literally kind of move you into that space,” he says. “For me, particularly in the live shows, I definitely am in a different mindset. And that is the interesting thing about music. It is so deeply personal and it is very raw and you’re very exposed out there because you are opening your heart up while you’re performing.”
Midland’s latest single, “Sunrise Tells the Story,” is all about the first night a couple meets and spends the night together, and how the morning after reveals the details of the previous night and the potential of the future. All three guys in Midland say they’ve lived that scenario at one time or another, so the song was inspired by the collective of their experiences.
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Mark Wystrach – “You always need to go into that place. You need to populate that story, and it is recalling – maybe not consciously, sometimes it is subconscious. I feel like if the song is written well enough, the music will literally kind of move you into that space. For me, particularly in the live shows, I definitely am in a different mindset. And that is the interesting thing about music. It is so deeply personal and it is very raw and you’re very exposed out there because you are opening your heart up while you’re performing.”