Middle Kids deliver new single 'Highlands'

After recently returning with their stunning comeback single 'Bootleg Firecracker' earlier this year, Middle Kids are back once again to deliver a brand new offering.

The new track 'Highlands' marks their second piece of new material so far this year, and comes accompanied by a brilliant new video, directed by Toby Morris.

Speaking about the new effort, lead singer and songwriter Hannah Joy said, “Since I was young, I’ve had this yearning to be free. In this song I used an image of the ‘highlands’ as a euphoric place where I have the space to be me, and you have the space to be you. Part of the imagery comes from my Scottish heritage, which my grandmother was always so proud of. I recorded some big slow piano chords which Tim mangled into the atmospheric hits in the intro.

"When we finished the song with Jon Gilmore in the UK, he thought it was important that the song felt punky, like a bunch of teenagers practising in their garage. So, there are these 2 energies fighting it out - the constricted energy of the domestic space and the wide open energy of the highlands. We have a friend who calls this kind of music ‘yearncore’. It’s that impatient energy that says, ‘I can’t keep waiting, I need a change’.”

Have a listen to 'Highlands' in the player below.

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