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The Midnight discography

The Midnight performing during the Spring 2019 Tour
See also: List of songs by The Midnight
The Midnight discography
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The Midnight performing during the Spring 2019 Tour
Studio albums5
EPs3
Singles19
Live albums1
Remix albums2
Remix singles11
Remixes10
Reissues1

Since forming in 2012, The Midnight have released three EPs, five studio albums, one live album, two remix albums, 18 singles, 10 remix singles, and 10 remixes of songs by other artists. Composed of producer Tim McEwan and singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle, The Midnight debuted in July 2014 with the extended play (EP) Days of Thunder. While the EP did not feature any singles, it gained traction on Reddit and several small music sites throughout 2014 and 2015.[1][2] In August 2016, The Midnight's first album Endless Summer was released, preceded by the release of the singles Sunset and Vampires. Endless Summer firmly established the band as a top artist within the synthwave scene, with songs like Sunset, Vampires, and Los Angeles quickly becoming staples of the genre.[3][4][5]

One year after Endless Summer, The Midnight released their first remix album The Midnight Remixed in August 2017, a collaboration with electronic music label Silk Music. The album was notable as being their first release associated with a label and was also their first release to appear on a Billboard chart, peaking at 22 on the Dance/Electronic Albums Chart. In October 2017, Nocturnal was released as the band's second album, supported by the single Crystalline. Embracing a darker sound and receiving positive reviews from critics,[6][7][8][9][10] the album appeared on three Billboard charts: Dance/Electronic, Heatseekers, and Vinyl.

The Midnight released their third album Kids in September 2018. The first entry in a trilogy series of albums, it was described by the band as being "dedicated to the disaffected youth"[11] and featured a lighter, more upbeat sound that channeled an idealized 1980s childhood. Preceded by the singles Lost Boy, America 2, and Arcade Dreams, Kids received more mixed reviews from critics compared to Nocturnal[12][13][14][15][16] but was a success commercially, topping the Billboard Dance/Electronic Sales chart and peaking at number two on the Heatseekers chart. The Midnight's second remix album The Midnight Remixed 02 was released by Silk Music in September 2019 and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart.

The Kids trilogy continued in the summer of 2020 with the release of Monsters in July, their debut with the label Counter Records, an imprint of Ninja Tune. Spawning the singles America Online, Deep Blue, Dance With Somebody, and Prom Night, Monsters extended on the thematic elements initially introduced in Kids while venturing into new genres like lo-fi and vaporwave. Commended by critics for expanding The Midnight's horizons,[17][18][19][20][21] the album was their first release to appear on the Billboard 200 chart where it peaked at 134. In October 2020, the Halloween-themed Horror Show was released as the band's second EP. Initially exclusive to Amazon Music, Horror Show was aided in production by electronic musician Essenger and featured a cover of the Patti Smith Group hit song Because The Night. The EP would later receive a full release to all platforms in March 2021.

Summer 2021 saw The Midnight celebrating the fifth anniversary of Endless Summer by reissuing the album with two new bonus tracks, Comet and Bend. This was followed in July by the release of The Rearview Mirror, an EP containing five orchestral arrangements of songs from the album in collaboration with the Magik*Magik Orchestra. The Kids trilogy concluded in September 2022 with the release of Heroes, the band's fifth album. Supported by the singles Change Your Heart or Die, Heartbeat, Avalanche, Brooklyn. Friday. Love., and Heart Worth Breaking, Heroes continued The Midnight's efforts to bend and experiment with different genres. Featuring more rock and Americana influences, critics favorably compared the album to works by Mutt Lange and Giorgio Moroder.[22][23][24] Heroes appeared on a total of seven Billboard charts, the most notable of which was the Billboard 200 where it peaked at 134. In April 2023, The Midnight's first live album Red, White and Bruised: The Midnight Live was released exclusively to independent record stores as part of Record Store Day 2023, later receiving a full release to all platforms in September 2023.

Outside of their main releases, Tim McEwan has remixed songs for other artists under The Midnight name, beginning in 2015 with a remix of the Tyler Lyle song Lost & Found. Other artists he has remixed include Drake, Scavenger Hunt, Jon Bellion, A R I Z O N A, and The Night Game. The Midnight were a featured artist on the Timecop1983 song Static in May 2018, and in November 2019 they contributed the song Sometimes She Smiles for the compilation album Vehlinggo Presents: 5 Years. After streaming the song's creation on Twitch, Cold Pizza was released as a YouTube only song in February 2021 to commemorate National Pizza Day. In February 2024, they were a featured artist on the Essenger song Silence.

Title Details Singles Charts[a]
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Days of Thunder
  • Released: July 15, 2014
    • March 20, 2016 (instrumentals)
    • May 7, 2021 (stems)
  • Label: The Midnight Music
  • Formats: Digital download, CD, cassette, LP
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Horror Show
  • Released: October 16, 2020 (Amazon Music)[b]
    • March 19, 2021 (general release, instrumentals)
  • Label: Counter Records
  • Formats: Digital download, cassette, LP
  1. Neon Medusa
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The Rearview Mirror
  • Released: July 23, 2021
  • Label: The Midnight Music
  • Formats: Digital download, LP
  1. Vampires
  • Classical Crossover: 4

  1. ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 All charts are from US Billboard<ref>"The Midnight". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 18, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  2. ↑ A digital download of Horror Show and its instrumentals was available on release day by pre-ordering a physical copy of the EP.
  3. ↑ Endless Summer is the only instrumental release to have different album art from the original release, which can be seen here.
  4. ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 Unofficial remix

America Online

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"America Online"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Monsters
ReleasedMay 13, 2019 (2019-05-13)
Length5:49
LabelCounter Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Monsters track listing

Monsters

  1. "1991 (intro)"
  2. "America Online"
  3. "Dance With Somebody"
  4. "Seventeen"
  5. "Dream Away"
  6. "The Search for Ecco"
  7. "Prom Night"
  8. "Fire In The Sky"
  9. "Monsters"
  10. "Helvetica"
  11. "Brooklyn"
  12. "Deep Blue"
  13. "Night Skies"
  14. "City Dreams (interlude)"
  15. "Last Train"
The Midnight singles chronology
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Arcade Dreams
(2018) 		America online - single.jpg
America Online
(2019) 		Deep blue - single.jpg
Deep Blue
(2020)

America Online[27] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first single and second track from their album Monsters. The single was released on May 13, 2019.[26]

The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of five minutes and 49 seconds and is in the key of B minor.

During a tour stop in the Spring 2019 Tour about a month before the single's release, the band talked with NewRetroWave about America Online:[28]

As a kid you’re sort of [disconnected] from the world… But when you’re in your teenage years, everything is sort of inner-conflict, relationships, all happening at once. The tensions of romantic love, acceptance in groups and things like that. …it’s not a sunset right? It’s more of a sort of blog track. I love going on vaporwave track playlists on youtube. I love the low-grade, low-fi, bitcrushed sound – it’s like that but with a bit more of a cleaner palette, a cleaner mix. So, that one will set the tone. Tyler is definitely on it, but in a bit more of a…vocodery way.

In an interview with Magnetic Magazine after the release of Monsters, The Midnight further stated:[29]

Tim: This sets the tone for our album. We’re in the era of connectivity. Gone are the days of being a kid, riding around on bikes, exploring the world around you. You’re a teen now and your nights are spent online in your bedroom, logged onto chat rooms, while the door to your parents is shut and you are searching for your own identity.

Tyler: This track was basically done and we’d decided to do it as an instrumental, but at the last minute I decided to try and write something. By that time we knew what the album was about roughly. This became the premise of the record- is love necessarily reciprocal- is hate? What is intimacy without proximity? Are we really connected at the bottom of all of this, especially when “all of this” is mediated by so many layers that seem un-human.

According to McEwan, the synth used in the opening of America Online is Serum with EchoMelt 2 added to get the uneven tape jitter effect.[30] The vocoder used is a mix of VocalSynth 2 from iZotope and BitSpeek.

The date on the single artwork for America Online is August 6, 1991, which is the day the world's first website was published by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.[31][32]

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12th February, 2025
Music - Love is an Ocean is revealed as a single and will be released on February 21, 2025.
3rd December, 2024
Tour - A solo show in Mexico City is announced for April 5, 2025.
29th October, 2024
Tour - The Midnight are announced as part of the lineup for the 2025 Tecate Pal Norte music festival in Monterrey, Mexico. The Midnight will perform on April 4, the first day of the festival.
18th October, 2024
Tour - The Chrome Nights North American Tour concludes in Denver.
4th October, 2024
Music - The Midnight's remix of Lost And Found by Chromeo is released. The remix is included on the deluxe edition of Chromeo's album Adult Contemporary.
1st October, 2024
Merch - The Midnight: Shadows graphic novel is released.
6th September, 2024
Music - Chariot is released as a single.
5th September, 2024
Tour - The Chrome Nights North American Tour begins in Vancouver.
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Did You Know?

  • ...that The Midnight's first live show outside of California was in Chicago?
  • ...that Dream Away was described by Tim McEwan as being an ode to "Pure Moods compilations from the 90s"?
  • ...that the PROFF pres. Soultorque Remix of Days of Thunder was on the Fall 2023 North American Tour setlist and was the first time that a remix was performed live?
  • ...that Dance With Somebody was once in a different key and had a guitar solo instead of a sax solo?
  • ...that Tim McEwan's brother Oliver is also a musician, but their parents are actors?
  • ...that planning for The Midnight's graphic novel Shadows began in 2020, four years before its release?
  • ...that Tim McEwan once played drums in the Eurovison Song Contest?
  • ...that Tyler Lyle once lived in Paris?
  • ...that Tim McEwan co-wrote and produced a song for New Kids On The Block?
  • ...that for five years Comet was nothing more than a small snippet on Facebook before finally being released in 2021?

  1. ↑ "The Midnight - Days of Thunder (2014) : futuresynth". Reddit. September 2, 2014. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  2. ↑ "The Midnight -- Days of Thunder [Synthwave/Synthpop] (2014) : listentothis". Reddit. August 24, 2014. Archived from the original on August 24, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  3. ↑ "The Midnight's Endless Summer is 2016's Greatest '80s Soundtrack (Review) - Opus". Opus. August 25, 2016. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  4. ↑ "In The Spotlight: The Midnight - "Endless Summer" - New Fury Media". New Fury Media. January 12, 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  5. ↑ Zistler, Andrew (August 29, 2016). "The Midnight - Endless Summer - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  6. ↑ Sievers, Alex (October 16, 2017). "Album Review: The Midnight - 'Nocturnal' | KillYourStereo | Australian and International Punk, Hardcore, Metal, Rock and Indie Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Comps". KillYouStereo. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  7. ↑ Wilcoxson, Steven (September 17, 2018). "THE MIDNIGHT – Nocturnal - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on February 9, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  8. ↑ Zistler, Andrew (October 23, 2017). "The Midnight - Nocturnal - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on October 3, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  9. ↑ Vehling, Aaron (October 31, 2017). "Recommends: The Midnight, Mr. Eff, Nightcrawler, The G". Vehlinggo. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Virée nocturne avec Nocturnal, le nouvel EP de The Midnight – Synthspiria". Synthspiria. October 19, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  11. ↑ "The Midnight - Our next album is dedicated to the disaffected... | Facebook". Facebook. March 24, 2018. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Album Review: The Midnight - Kids - Iron Skullet". Iron Skullet. September 24, 2018. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  13. ↑ Vehling, Aaron (September 21, 2018). "The Midnight - Kids • Review • Vehlinggo". Vehlinggo. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  14. ↑ Sievers, Alex (September 24, 2018). "Album Review: The Midnight - 'Kids' | KillYourStereo | Australian and International Punk, Hardcore, Metal, Rock and Indie Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Comps". Kill Your Stereo. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  15. ↑ Treakle, James (July 15, 2019). "[Album Review] Not a Sentimental Age – Kids (2018) by The Midnight — Indie Frontiers". Indie Frontiers. Archived from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  16. ↑ Zistler, Andrew (September 23, 2018). "The Midnight - Kids - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  17. ↑ Crumlish, Callum (July 10, 2020). "The Midnight 'Monsters' album review: L.A. duo deliver most stylish and creative music yet | Music | Entertainment | Express.co.uk". Express. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  18. ↑ Vehling, Aaron (July 10, 2020). "The Midnight - Monsters - REVIEW • Vehlinggo". Vehlinggo. Archived from the original on July 14, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  19. ↑ Yopko, Nick (July 14, 2020). "The Midnight Attain Retrowave Greatness on Nostalgic Third Album "Monsters" - EDM.com - The Latest Electronic Dance Music News, Reviews & Artists". EDM.com. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  20. ↑ Morawitz, Owen (July 9, 2020). "The Midnight's Nostalgic 'Monsters' Is Tailor-Made for Boomboxes Held Overhead | Exclaim!". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on July 12, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  21. ↑ Jewers, Sarah (July 15, 2020). "The Midnight - Monsters Album Review | FUZZY". FUZZY. Archived from the original on September 13, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  22. ↑ Vehling, Aaron (September 8, 2022). "The Midnight - Heroes - ALBUM REVIEW • Vehlinggo". Vehlinggo. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  23. ↑ Crumlish, Callum (September 8, 2022). "The Midnight: Heroes review - Saving music with their best album yet". Express.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
  24. ↑ Collar, Matt. "The Midnight - Heroes Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 27, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2023 – via www.allmusic.com.
  25. ↑ "australian-charts.com - Discography The Midnight". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on October 28, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
  26. ↑ Jump up to: 26.0 26.1 26.2 "MIDNIGHT | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts. Archived from the original on September 27, 2022. Retrieved June 17, 2023. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
  27. ↑ "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  28. ↑ Zistler, Andrew (April 5, 2019). "The Midnight Talk Tour and Reveal New Single - America Online - NewRetroWave - Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream!". NewRetroWave. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  29. ↑ Middleton, Ryan (July 10, 2020). "The Director's Cut: The Midnight - MONSTERS - Magnetic Magazine". Magnetic Magazine. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  30. ↑ "We are The Midnight and we're playing Electric Forest for the first time. Ask us Anything! : ElectricForest". Reddit. May 21, 2019. Archived from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  31. ↑ Nix, Elizabeth (August 4, 2016). "The World's First Web Site - HISTORY". HISTORY. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  32. ↑ "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
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