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Midway In Wake is the mostly on-again solo project of Greg Reynaud, an American singer-songwriter, who’s spent a large portion of his “adulthood” in South Korea. This new batch of self-produced, self-recorded songs called ‘The Going Nowhere Show,’ represent Greg’s third full-length album under the Midway In Wake moniker for Lowatt Records, and we couldn’t be prouder of him. His mom assures us that, “It’s his best yet!”… even though we’re pretty sure that she hasn’t listened to it either.

After a somewhat long (yet welcome?) hiatus, Reynaud has again returned to the “international circuit” as he likes to call it, much to the chagrin of his wife, neighbors, and co-workers. However, Greg’s former therapist was very pleased to hear that something resembling these songs came from the years of late night noodling he was subjected to. Thankfully, the long, and largely boring journey to complete this album is nearly final, and we didn’t have to suffer through another grandiose overarching theme album like we had to to on his previous album, ‘Heirs To The Storm’. “Whew!,” am I right?

Since you brought it up, Greg’s laser focus on the coherence of the narrative arc throughout ‘Heirs To The Storm’ forced him down some fairly narrow creative paths, so naturally, as a Gen X’er, he rebelled against that on this outing. Instead, he opted to write songs that he wanted to hear, at that moment, rather than thinking about how that song would fit the vision of the album’s story arc. All that to say, he’s stripped it all back, and it works better for it(?). No big Hollywood stories, no limited merch tie-ins, no lucrative sync placements, no big PR stunts or fancy lunches at the hip spot… just a man and his guitar, pleasuring himself at midnight, bathed in the flickering glow of his laptop. ‘The Going Nowhere Show’ is just that, and that’s okay.