Midlake: Videos of Van Occupanther Pt.4: "Bandits"

The epic video for "Bandits", which includes a piano introduction not available on the album, "Trials of Van Occupanther". Go to PREFIXMAG.com for this week's featured artist commentary!

Go to YOUTUBE.COM/GROUP/MIDLAKE to enter the music video contest! Stay tuned every Monday for a brand new video from Midlake, as we gradually unveil The Trials of Van Occupanther.

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CREW
Director/Cinematography: Jon Collins
Production: Midlake and Jon Collins
Production Assistant: Kyle Stevens
Effects Supervisor: Brad Koehn
Additional Effects: Tim Carter
Set Director: Mandy Metts

CAST
Man: Scott Cox
Woman: Aubrey Dupre
Lead Bandit: Eric Pulido
Henchmen: Jason Upshaw, Stanton Stephens, Justin Evans

Special thanks to Jamie Hurd

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Midlake
• bandits
• trials
• van
• occupanther
• rock
• americana
• folk
• roll

[paulosham]

yeah and why are they called midlake when they are clearly not in the middle of a lake. those guys really grind my gears.

[EbnoC]

Midlake's music really lives in it's own world.

[Synthhtnys]

Lovers of Midlake should check out a rare late 60's album by Pete McCabe "The Man Who Ate The Plant" very similar vibe to 'Van Occupanther"....

[psych0activ]

I heard this on Fringe.

[steezandcheez]

@cashJOHNNYcash17

Seriously? In terms of songwriting and musical ability Midlake leave fleet foxes in the dust. Simple truth.

[artistgemini23]

the attic reminds me of the house where they filmed the original "Carrie"

[JosephW99]

Great song and album. Cool video too BUT THEY DON"T SUIT EACHOTHER

[dasboot305]

@paulosham I don't know for sure, but the name Midlake could come from the geography of Denton, TX, where the band comes from. There are large lakes on the north and south ends of the city. There are also a set of parks in town called North Lakes and South Lakes parks. It would be just a guess about the name. I could be totally wrong.

[mametz]

The hits on this album exceed the quality of Fleet Foxes best imo.  However, I prefer Fleet Foxes to most of the Courage of Others.

[cashJOHNNYcash17]

@Znekeenan Fleet Foxes are the best modern band in my opinion, check them out.

[Znekeenan]

Its hard these days to find bands as good as this - what with all the censorship on the mainstream radios. May I suggest you watch the Video for On & On by FOSSIL COLLECTIVE (And please don't mark as spam - unless you want the world to end up listening to Justin Bieber) xx