The Midnight Endless Summer Album Cover
Artist: The Midnight Album: Endless Summer Released: 2016 Style: Electronic Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 137 Mb. Tracklist: 01 – Endless Summer 02 – Sunset 03 – Daytona 04 – Jason (feat. Nikki Flores) 05 – Synthetic 06 – The Equaliser (Not Alone) 07 – The Comeback Kid 08 – Vampires 09 – Crockett’s Revenge 10 – Nighthawks 11. Cosmopolis The second of the Midnight's trilogy about growing up, we have moved from 80s childhood to 90s adolescence. A step up from 'Kids,' this album still has the distinct bittersweetness the Midnight is so known for, but there are more moments of joy and peace ('Dance With Somebody,' 'The Search For Ecco,' 'Prom Night'), plus the triumphant return of the sax ('Deep Blue').
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 White Cassette release of Endless Summer on Discogs. Label: Not On Label (The Midnight (2) Self-released) - none. Format: Cassette Album White. Country: US. Genre: Electronic. Style: Synthwave, Synth-pop. Listen to Endless Summer on Spotify. The Midnight Album 2016 12 songs.
After establishing a contemplative, overcast chamber electro-pop across a span of two albums, Icelandic musician Sóley Stefánsdóttir veers slightly off her established course to take a more scenic route for her third solo LP. Titled Endless Summer, it took inspiration from a note she scribbled down after waking in the middle of the night: 'Write about hope and spring.' Still restrained and artful in its detailing, the album takes on a more whimsical tone and piano-centric palette than her prior effort, 2015's Ask the Deep, while still sounding uniquely Sóley. It opens with a passage of solo piano from the instrument's upper range on 'Úa,' which shares her daughter's name. The intimate piece, full of sweetness and dissonance, incorporates twinkling mallet percussion, horns, strings, and howling vocals in turn, with the overall effect of an off-kilter nursery rhyme. Likewise, several passing moments on Endless Summer, some of which unfold during the waltz 'Traveler,' are remindful of Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, particularly 'Aquarium,' both in terms of palette and technique (something we've heard before from Sóley on a track like 'Fight from Soft' from her debut). She infuses the album with a similarly fantastical charm and discreet volume. Both a songwriter and colorist, she seems to embrace pastels instead of blues and silvers here, without ever reaching for a rainbow. It's a brief outing at just over 30 minutes with seven songs and a short instrumental interlude ('Inbetween'). Still, it has time to transport and make an impression, emotionally and sonically, traits that all of Sóley's work to date has in common.
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Background information | |
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Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Years active | 2012–present |
Labels | Independent |
Associated acts | Tyler Lyle, Nikki Flores, FM-84, Timecop1983, Scavenger Hunt, Jesse Molloy, Thomas Edinger, Rupert van E, William Pope, Dr. VE, Jupiter Winter |
Website | themidnightofficial.com |
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The Midnight is a synthwave band composed of Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Jamison Tyler Lyle and Los Angeles-based Danish-born producer, songwriter, and singer Tim Daniel McEwan.[1]
The band was formed as a result of Lyle and McEwan meeting during a co-writing workshop in 2012 in North Hollywood, CA[2].[3] Inspired in part by the score for Drive, and the retro synth genre growing around its release,[3] the pair wrote two singles, 'WeMoveForward' and 'Gloria', that would be released two years later in 2014 as part of their debut EP titled Days of Thunder.[4] In 2016, the duo released a 12 track LP, Endless Summer,[5] followed in 2017 with the release of Nocturnal,[6] which spent several weeks as a best seller on the music distribution website Bandcamp and reached number 17 on Billboard's Dance/Electronic charts October 2017.[7] The band went on to perform their second sell-out concert, taking place at the Globe Theatre on Broadway in Los Angeles in November 2017.[8]The band had multiple collaborations with Timecop1983, another retro synth genre producer. One of the collaborations appears on the album Nocturnal, titled 'River of Darkness'. The other collaboration between them appears on the album Night Drive of Timecop1983, titled 'Static'.
The band's motto is 'mono no aware' (物の哀れ), a Japanese phrase that loosely translates to 'a sense of nostalgic wistfulness and the awareness that nothing lasts forever'.[9]
In 2019 McEwan appeared in the documentary film The Rise of the Synths, which explored the origins and growth of the synthwave genre. McEwan appeared alongside various other composers from the scene, including John Carpenter, who also starred in and narrated the film.
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |
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Endless Summer |
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Kids |
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Monsters |
| 28 | 85 |
Collaborative albums[edit]
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The Midnight Remixed 01 |
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The Midnight Remixed 02 |
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EPs[edit]
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Days of Thunder |
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Nocturnal |
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Horror Show |
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Singles[edit]
Title | Year | Album |
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'Sunset' | 2016 | Endless Summer |
'Vampires' | ||
'Crystalline' | 2017 | Nocturnal |
'Lost Boy' | 2018 | Kids |
'America 2' | ||
'Arcade Dreams' | ||
'America Online' | 2019 | Monsters |
'Sometimes She Smiles' | Vehlinggo Presents: 5 Years | |
'Deep Blue' | 2020 | Monsters |
'Dance with Somebody' | ||
'Prom Night' |
Remixes[edit]
Artist | Title | Release date |
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Tyler Lyle | Lost & Found (The Midnight Remix) | March 13, 2016 |
Drake | 0 To 100 (The Midnight Remix) | July 2016 |
Scavenger Hunt | Never Enough (The Midnight Remix) | November 8, 2016 |
ARIZONA | Oceans Away (The Midnight Remix) | February 24, 2017 |
Clubhouse | Kyra (The Midnight Remix) | April 10, 2017 |
Jon Bellion | 80's Films (The Midnight Remix) | June 25, 2017 |
The Night Game | The Outfield (The Midnight Remix) | April 27, 2018 |
SYML | Clean Eyes (The Midnight Remix) | February 8, 2019 |
The Ivy | Missing Out (The Midnight Remix) | April 21, 2020 |
Latroit | Don't Give Up (The Midnight Remix) | September 25, 2020 |
References[edit]
- ^'The Midnight'. The Midnight.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33B7uhyY4HY
- ^ abTausi New VHS Technologist (20 April 2017). 'The Midnight Live Stream Video, April 10/2017' – via YouTube.
- ^'Days of Thunder, by The Midnight'. The Midnight.
- ^'Endless Summer, by The Midnight'. The Midnight.
- ^'Nocturnal, by The Midnight'. The Midnight.
- ^'Reliving the Past with The Midnight: An In-Depth Interview'. 12 November 2017.
- ^'FM-84 and The Midnight @ The Globe Theatre - LA Music Blog'. lamusicblog.com.
- ^Dexter, Robyn (2019). 'The Midnight paint with vibrant sonic colors as they prepare their new LP, tour the world [Interview]'. Dancing Astronaut. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^'ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association. July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ^'Midnight | full Official Chart history'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 18, 2020.