The Midnight - Monsters - 2x LP Splatter Vinyl

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c0025513
UPC:
5054429152067

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Artist:
The Midnight
Album:
Monsters
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
5054429152067

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2021 repress on purple splatter vinyl - Corey Hart is back with a new band! just kidding

There's a moment during "Last Train," the closing track to Monsters — the third full-length album from synthwave duo and online sensation the Midnight — where Atlanta singer Tyler Lyle sings wistfully of the potential for shifting perspectives. Backed by an instrumental soundscape crafted by British/Dutch producer and partner-in-rhyme Tim McEwan, Lyle's warm croon tells the story of two close friends stranded in the city, now pilgrims on a late-night voyage of intimate discovery. Resting on warbling retro synthesizers, faint guitar arpeggios and pulsing electronic drums, Lyle's choral refrain drives home the central thesis of the track and of Monsters as a record: "There is a song singing in the fire / Don't get too close, it cuts like a wire / There is a reason for every season of desire."

With synthwave rising throughout the 2010s as a formidable genre in its own right, spawning a myriad of sub-genre enclaves like chillwave, outrun, retrowave, futuresynth and vaporwave, it's no surprise that this idea of seasonal change has informed the Midnight's strong nostalgic impulse. At the heart of the band's ethos is a term derived from classical Japanese literature, "mono no aware," which describes "the sad beauty of seeing time pass – the aching awareness of impermanence." And listening to Monsters, one finds this yearning for '90s ephemera littered across the entire album — from Aaron Campbell's neon-soaked cover artwork (adorned with images of pizza boxes, video-game consoles, comic books and iconic movie posters) to track titles like "America Online," "Seventeen" and "Prom Night" that serve as sentimental touchstones for burgeoning adolescence.

On their third full-length album, the Midnight expand on their existing songwriting template to ensure that their affection for the transience of things is not mired by stasis. Where previous releases like 2017's excellent Nocturnal EP and 2018's restrained follow-up Kids paired a subtle, brooding ambience against a bright, youthful veneer, Monsters tools up for the big messy questions of those tumultuous teenage years.
A11991 [Intro]
A2America Online
A3Dance With Somebody
A4Seventeen
B1Dream Away
B2The Search For Ecco
B3Prom Night
B4Fire In The Sky
C1Monsters
C2Helvetica
C3Brooklyn
C4Deep Blue
D1Night Skies
D2City Dreams [Interlude]
D3Last Train