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Chromeo & the Midnight – Terminal 5 – October 4, 2024

Montreal twosome Chromeo and L.A. synthwave duo the Midnight’s joint tour has found them funking up North America together, and Friday night at Terminal 5 was a whole lot more of that ’80s-influenced funky good time.

Photos courtesy of Hillary Safadi | @hillasafadi

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like this post if you are going to see The Midnight in Atlanta tonight and are going to renounce your U.S. citizenship if they don't play Comet (Bonus Track)

[aesthetic-carley]

The Midnight Lyrics Appreciation Post

The city carved a silhouette
On the ocean after dark
Over the lonely and the holy
And the red blood beating hearts

Up from the dirty black water
The shadow void of form
Raised itself out of the river
And it climbed upon the shore

Neon on the black top
There's a gentle rain downtown
The shadow pooling underneath me
As it follows on the ground

Kissed you when I saw you
Stared deep into your eyes
I meant to say I love you
But instead I said goodbye

-Shadows

The problem with believers

They’ll let anyone in the door

The problem with deceivers

Is all the bodies buried under the floor boards

-Crystalline

Make our home, where we stand

One suitcase and half a plan

Follow the wolves and sing along

Past the voices to the song

They say it's darkest before the dawn

We've been in this town for far too long

They say it's darkest before the dawn

We're moving on, we're moving on, we're moving on

-Sunset

You'll always be a part of me

You gave me a song to sing

Dancing in your room

Innocent and true

Elvis tattoo on your shoulder

We'll know better when we're older

You'll always be a part of me

Some wounds will always sting

Forever in full bloom

Barely twenty two

Summer days are growing colder

We'll know better when we're older

-Memories

Memories and mountain tops

Drunk on sunset boulevard

With the city of angels singing on

Maybe this is just a dream

And maybe we’re still asleep

But I, I will miss you when I'm gone

Flickers of the canyon fire

It's hands raised like a gospel choir

If we live forever, let us live forever tonight

Helicopters against the moonlight

Our holy mother of the midnight

And if we live forever, let us live forever tonight

-Los Angeles

I've make mistakes and I've been hard hit

I say so what, so what if I did

I'm the clear eyed

I'm the comeback kid

It's been a rough year

Been some tough tears

I've lost so fast

All that I had

But when it's time to

I'll fight for you

'Cause you know you are

Why I've come so far

-The Comeback Kid

You move on a thousand times

New lover's shadows on the blinds

Your heart's a mercenary

But like a dancer on the wire

Come the sparks of frayed desire as the fire's carried

I'm just a ghost in your stereo

The fading memory of a shipwreck in the undertow

You're just a lost song I wrote

And I'm just a ghost in your stereo

-Ghost in Your Stereo

Called a curse in the cradle

Loving mother, unstable

Daddy gone, under the table

But you found a song in your heart

So you learned how to fight, how to starve, how to survive

When the others blocked your light you learned to see beyond the stars

The curse of small desires

Easily acquired

It's time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons, kill 'em dead

In your mirror, in your bed

In your heart, in your head

Don't you look good in red?

Slay your devils, kill 'em all

Take your throne, paint the walls

And if you make it out alive, hold that bloody head up high

-Good in Red

I sink like stone

You seem to flow above the madness like wings on canvas

And all that I know

Is that I hear the notes through the darkness like a promise

Everything will always be exactly how it’s gonna be

Though I seem to worry every single day

This prodigal turns home again then morning comes and in the end

I see that new sun shining on your face

We begin to bend

We begin to mend

-Bend

Kids are sad, the sky is blue

There are monsters in the spare bedroom

Kids grow up and move away

They close the plant in the mall arcade

Kids are sad, their parents too

Kids get high in the spare bedroom

We grow up and move away

The seasons pass but the monsters stay

-Kids

[weheartchrisevans]

themidnightofficial: Amazing night with amazing people for a great cause @christophershaven. Thank you for having us, Chris.

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The Midnight / London - Stuart Peach Photo  o

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It's impossible to explain but I'll try anyway. The Midnight and their peers leading synthwave don't understand the influence they are having on people's lives. They are doing things for us that are greater than they can probably imagine. We are having conversations about how this new wave is literally scoring the best years of our lives. This is the music we will remember from our youth, forever. This is the music our generation will be playing for their children while they sit in the backseat and dream. It's permanently a part of our history. It's so definitively, for many of us, the sound of a time and place in space that is otherwise completely inaccessible with words.

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Who Are The Midnight?: An Interview with the Masters of Modern Nostalgia

Who Are The Midnight?: An Interview with the Masters of Modern Nostalgia

This is an in-depth interview with The Midnight, diving deep into the story of a band that has become a movement.

This is such a cool interview from a few years ago. It's so awesome that Tyler mentions Garth Brooks' "Thunder Rolls" as inspiration for "Shadows". I would have never put the two together, but now I definitely hear that same suspense in "Crystalline" as well. I love so much that The Midnight is what all the flickerings of the 2010s' early new retro synthwave acts bloomed into. It was so cool seeing that natural progression as mainstream music started adopting more and more elements of 80s pop and progressive house music.

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What an amazing song, an amazing release date, and an amazing band. The Midnight, you've done it again and my appreciation for you runs so deep.✨