MIDNIGHT – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com Stay Retro Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:35:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-10906530_846941002018082_8508920941385779369_n-1-32x32.jpg MIDNIGHT – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com 32 32 THE MIDNIGHT – Nocturnal  https://newretrowave.com/2018/09/17/the-midnight-the-nocturnal/ https://newretrowave.com/2018/09/17/the-midnight-the-nocturnal/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:27:35 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=24334 THE MIDNIGHT – The Nocturnal 
In preparation for The Midnight’s new album we take a look at their previous masterpiece ‘Nocturnal’…
 
A VHS musical fueled adventure through much loved 80’s tropes, blending action, romance and horror in equal measure. Nocturnal promises not only splendid nostalgia-drenched-analogue-soaked sounds, but the incredible visuals of your synthwave dreams. 
The perfect gift for lovers of Retrowave-Outrun-80’s aficionados everywhere, a true audio love letter to the 1980’s whilst blending modern production elements…
Living in symptoms of the night before, a lifetime ago, decades before us, strange time lapses, detached from the things you see in the present but still there existing in the ether. 
At times there is space to breathe and imagine, buoyant pads, lucid lead lines, hanging very close to the lighter and more pop-oriented variety of Retrowave. At others tracks are steeped in analogue dread, seeping synths, percolating intense arpeggios.
The album as a whole can be summarised by this visual- A hill overlooking the cityscape, soaking up the sun at this height, seeing the whole city and the sun setting behind it shimmering in synthwave lines. Then night falls and the world is bathed in darkness, a violent neon hum, a moody synthscape filled with brooding ghostly vocal tones that will chill you to the bone and leave you in the best possible way: haunted. 
]]> https://newretrowave.com/2018/09/17/the-midnight-the-nocturnal/feed/ 0 THE MIDNIGHT DROPS A NEW ALBUM – HOT OR NOT? https://newretrowave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408the-midnight-drops-new-album-hot-or-not-html/ https://newretrowave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408the-midnight-drops-new-album-hot-or-not-html/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:23:00 +0000 http://new-retro-wave.com/2014/08/28/wretrowave-com201408the-midnight-drops-new-album-hot-or-not-html/ Album Review
The Midnight: Days of Thunder

 

by
 Andrea Sabiu
 “Top class vocal and lyrics combined with a satisfying and genuine-­‐as-­‐can-­‐be sound that take you on a trip down nostalgia lane.”




Sometimes melding together different music styles brings to life a very unique sound, and that’s the case of the Los Angeles based duo formed by Tyler Lyle and iAmData,
 also known as “The Midnight”.

 

 
Their debut album “Days of Thunder” is a fusion experiment of contemporary electronic dance music with a touch of the 80’s retro styled synthesizers, a work of indubitable passion and cure for detail. But without further ado, let me tell you my impressions on this first glimpse of what “The Midnight” has in it’s sleeve…
Right from the first track, I immediately felt in a modern styled ambient, very “M83ish”; The sound of the 80’s, the synths, the pads, the feeling that Synthwave/Synthpop/Retrowave or however you want to call it generally brings up to it’s listeners, is more of a side dish, leaving space to a more prominent dream wave and progressive house setup; This is highly noticeable in the first three tracks. 
 
 
The beat is strong and deep, very direct, while the harmony provides a nice spotlight for the voice track. A little side note here: vocals and lyrics don’t stand out too much, resulting flat and repetitive at times, but they generally fit well with the music.
 
The second part, starting from track four *Days of Thunder* , and ending with my personal favorite *Los Angeles*, brings back a more retro styled, almost outrun, musical setup. A couple of well placed synth, guitar and saxophone solos really hit that 80’s movie cliché that always feels good to get.
There is still a very persistent EDM touch, that makes the whole thing an interesting new experience to listen to.
 
Looking at the whole album, it certainly feels like a solid piece of work, my only concern is that every song may be perceived as “stretched”, with an average six minutes apiece, it could be easy to get lost in the somewhat repetitive EDM mood, forgetting about the music and reducing it to a mere background setting.
Wrapping it up, “Days of Thunder” is a fresh release, worthy to be played through at least a couple of times, maybe on a slow car ride towards the sunset, enjoying the soundtrack of a movie that only you can see and hear.
 
Track List
1. The Years (prologue)
2. Gloria
3. WeMoveForward
4. Days of Thunder
5. Kick Drums & Red Wine
6. Los Angeles
 
Listen Here:
 

 
Check out “The Midnight” at: https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/album/days-of-thunder or leave them a comment @TheMidnightLA
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IT SEEMS THAT DANA IS ON FIRE RIGHT NOW! SHE HAS HAD SOME HOT FEATURES WITH ARTISTS AKAHANDSDOWN, BETAMAXX, AND SELLOREKT/ LA DREAMS. AND IT IS RUMORED THAT THERE ARE MORE MAJOR FEATURES TO COME…
THIS TRACK RIGHT HERE IS ANOTHER DANA JEAN PHOENIX FEATURE….THIS TIME WITH   THE EPIC STELLAR DREAMS DUO. THE VIDEO BELOW IS THE OFFICIAL KIEZ BEATS VIDEO AND IT IS HOT!
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