The Middle People Release ‘Can You Feel The Moment: Best Of The Middle People’

With three albums under their collective belt since Mikey Georgeson (David Devant & His Spirit Wife) & António Olaio (Repórter Estrábico) first met in 2024, it is high time for a Best Of The Middle People compilation. Gathering tracks from Revenge Of The Killjoys, Dogmatists In Disguise, and even one from last year’s Christmas With The Middle People holiday album, Can You Feel The Moment: Best Of The Middle People also adds a trio of new songs to bring more ‘Art-Pop Joy.’

Introduced through a mutual friend when Olaio was performing in a play in London, the two soon exchanged drawings. Georgeson sent him one titled “Losing My Virginity to Time Itself,” which ‘sort of set the tone.’ “We are both visual artists,” Olaio explains, “both used to putting things together in weird ways. I then asked Mikey to play on a song for an album I was going to make, and we became a band. It was very quick. We do everything very quickly.” The duo’s first song, “Hello John,” was their way of saying hello to each other. “It’s not a very nice song,” Georgeson laughs. “It’s about two twin brothers that hate each other. But it did feel like a conversation through music. That ambiguity is quite middle. We navigate both good and bad.”

The Middle People are quick to point out that ‘middle’ is not the same as ‘average.’ “There’s a joyful darkness. We are ambitious but in a generous, elegant, polite way.” For the band name, Georgeson was thinking of the children in The Midwich Cuckoos who take over your mind and control you. “Since neither António nor I is the leader, it’s the entity of the group itself that controls us. It makes all the decisions. Part of the ethos of The Middle People is that we don’t make decisions. We let what is happening occur. We’ve both collaborated on enough musical projects to know the best way to allow these to happen is through emergence. To really nurture rather than try to control.”

In the spirit of ‘letting things happen,’ lead-off track and future single “Can You Feel The Moment?” came about when Georgeson was messing about with an SH-101, and it started doing that arpeggio. “I was reading The Outsider by Colin Wilson at the time. I thought that song was going to be called ‘The Ultimate Yes’ but then Timothy Parkes sent me a joke text saying ‘can you feel the moment?’ and I started singing that instead. A lot of the time with the tracks, we’re trying not to make it too song-y. More Disco than Song. So that the moment of the track is all the way through, and Tim ended up being on the final song.” Olaio adding, “Anyways, it often feels like songs make themselves. Especially when you’re looking for rhymes.”

Can You Feel The Moment: Best Of The Middle People was released on all digital platforms on May 1, 2026, preceded by the single/video for “Things Change” on March 24th.

The Middle People ‘Revenge of the Killjoys’ album artwork