Middleman - Following The Ghost (Preorder 13/03/26)

Middleman - Following The Ghost (Preorder 13/03/26)

Label: Wipe Out Music - ESP2LP - 0717639105913
Format: LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 13th March 2026
Genre: Alternative
Style: Alternative

Description
“It’s hard to find your way, following the ghost,” sings Noah Alves on the title track from Middleman’s debut album, as the band explores ideas of how being chained to the past can hinder your forward momentum into the future. This creates a thrilling duality to the debut LP from the London DIY four-piece made up of Alves, Harper Maury, Rory White and Ted Foster. They are all young, in their early-to-mid-twenties, and very much focused in the now, harnessing an energy, urgency and rawness that feels fresh, alive and viscerally present. However, it’s also clear there’s a deep love of music that was made before they were born: the taut, wiry assault of Mission of Burma; the raspy yet melodic charge of The Replacements; the pioneering punk of Wipers, fleshed out via the more restrained and tender moments of Big Star or Neil Young. The result is a beautiful dichotomy of a record that both pays tribute to a rich musical lineage that the band are a part of, while also resisting the urge to get sucked into a dead end of nostalgia, mythology and recycling past glories.

Tracklist

Side A: 
CSN 
Distractions
Carry The Lie
All But The Flame
Vacant Days

Side B
The Furthest Place
Long Goodbye
Morning All The Time
Following The Ghost