Their fateful pairing in Los Angeles yielded DAYS OF THUNDER, which features concert staples “Gloria” and “Los Angeles” and laid the foundation for The Midnight’s seamless blend of stirring narratives and magnetic electronic music. Lyle hails from the Alabama-Georgia line, forging an indie-folk music career, releasing albums such as THE GOLDEN AGE & THE SILVER GIRL and co-writing music with Court Yard Hounds, among other acts. McEwan grew up in Denmark and got his start in pop-music production working with acts like Sean “Diddy” Combs, New Kids on the Block, and The Wanted before he and Lyle met in 2014 in Los Angeles. The ingredients of this come from a blend of markedly different experiences. Tendencies, the unbridled sense of joy we have within us, and our infinite desire to surrender ourselves to the collective charisma of togetherness. These architects use meticulously crafted music, a stunning visual aesthetic, and engaging live shows to tap into our quietest and most wistful Since their beginning McEwan and Lyle have been building progressively more complex yet eminently relatable worlds - their most-recent effort earning the top spot on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic charts and getting songs placed in shows like 13 Reasons Why. Fans see themselves in the movement and want to bring in more people. They show up by the thousands to sold-out shows on multiple continents. They blast the records at parties and crank up the volume on their car stereos. They come together, 15,000 at once, to experience a livestream benefit the band puts together. Fans come together online on every platform imaginable, streaming and downloading their previous releases – Endless Summer (2016), Nocturnal (2017) and Kids (2018) millions of times, and jumping over to spaces like social media and Reddit to hermeneutically dissect The Midnight’s body of work with a loving passion. This movement McEwan and Lyle have been building since 2014 began online with their debut album DAYS OF THUNDER, and over the past six years has become an encompassing, multi-sensory opportunity to find community wherever someone goes. Each song cultivates a story written on a bedrock of universal themes and eternal hooks, coming together to create a body of work that unifies an enthusiastic global fan base. Their music fuses this Americana with an evocative electronic palette that incorporates synth-driven film scores, dance music, synth-pop, and rock, creating an enveloping harmony of richly textured sonics and poignant lyrical imagery. The Midnight, the duo of producer Tim McEwan and singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle, are masters of flipping the disparate archetypes of yearning American youth - think everything from John Hughes films and the Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” music video to Snapchats of ravers losing it to a big bass drop and the lonesome sway of the “lofi hip hop radio – beats to study / relax to” YouTube channel - into their own modern collage that finds a throughline between generations of teenage ennui. That’s the goal: Give the audience enough raw material to make the world their own.” The better the symbol and the more universal the myth, the more people can create a world for themselves from their memories and desires.
#The midnight days of thunder album skin#
We’re trying to put a skin around the symbols and myths that civilization has told itself for 10,000 years. cry.įor a moment in time, that Endless Summer.“We stick to the archetypes. I was depriving myself of feeling something, of living life the way I wanted to, of letting myself smile, or most importantly. That I chose to ignore all because I became an "adult". I was feeling all of these emotions that I had buried deep inside. Having listened to the album for the first time back in 2016, walking through the London streets at night, contemplating the cars going by, the lights blinding me for a second, and just think about what I was going to do with my life. This track was a perfect addition to Endless Summer. The day I remembered why I love this band so much. Especially considering how much he expressed emotionally in Synthetic.Īnd then, the day finally arrived. Synthetic is one of my favourite tracks from The Midnight, and so I was eagerly anticipating for a new Tim song, both on vocals and lyrics.
Ever since Tim posted a glimpse of Comet on his instagram, I counted the days for it to be released (even if I had no idea when it would be coming out).