The Middle

The Middle is Addie and Cole’s debut album recorded live in Sedona, Arizona capturing two musicians in real-time conversation. With minimal production and an emphasis on presence, each track unfolds organically allowing space for nuance and the subtle interplay between piano, violin, and voice.

At its heart, The Middle is a search for meaning in the mundanity of life. The record weaves original works alongside carefully chosen classical pieces, reflecting the duo’s reverence for tradition while illuminating their evolving artistic voice.

The album is structured as a normal day in the life, with each song capturing a specific time of day from waking to evening reflections. It explores what it means to live within life’s tensions: striving and acceptance, dreaming and belonging, movement and stillness. Across the album, existential questions surface gently and often.

How long can we hold on to fleeting happiness?
Which dreams do we pursue, and which must we release?
What is the meaning of life?

Listeners are taken on a character’s journey through the search for meaning. A recurring motif of longing appears throughout for connection, for purpose, for clarity. Yet the album resists urgency. Instead, it invites us to slow down, to notice, and perhaps to reconsider the quiet beauty embedded in everyday life.

The Middle is a reminder that meaning is often not found in life’s most dramatic moments, but in the space where most of life actually happens — in the middle.