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Sunset

Sunset single cover
"Sunset"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Endless Summer
ReleasedMay 13, 2016 (2016-05-13)
Length5:26
LabelThe Midnight Music
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim McEwan
Endless Summer track listing
The Midnight singles chronology
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Sunset

(2016)
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Vampires

(2016)

"Sunset (incl. Michael Cassette Remix)"
Remix single by The Midnight
from the album The Midnight Remixed
ReleasedAugust 7, 2017 (2017-08-07)
Length14:48
LabelSilk Music
Songwriter(s)
The Midnight Remixed track listing
The Midnight remix singles chronology
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Days of Thunder (incl. PROFF pres. Soultorque Remix)

(2016)
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Sunset (incl. Michael Cassette Remix)

(2016)
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Synthetic (Mango, We Are All Astronauts, Lost Empire Remixes)

(2017)

Sunset[1] is a song by The Midnight. It is the first single and second track from their album Endless Summer. The single was released on May 13, 2016. Silk Music released a remix single of Sunset on August 7, 2017, with this release also containing the Michael Cassette Remix, which would later be included on the 2017 remix album The Midnight Remixed.[2][3]

The song was written by band members Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle and produced by McEwan. The guitar on Sunset was performed by Johannes Jørgensen. It has a running time of five minutes and 26 seconds and is in the key of F major. Sunset is considered to be one of The Midnight's signature songs and is often the last song performed at live shows.

In addition to appearing on The Midnight Remixed, the Michael Cassette Extended Remix of Sunset appears on the Silk Music compilation Silk Music Pres. Progressive House Essentials 06.[4]

During a fan question-and-answer session on Twitter, Lyle said this about the lyrics of Sunset:[5]

Now that song started at a cheap motel in Burlington, VT. There were crow bar marks on the door frame. I thought “now this would be the first stop for a couple of kids who faked their deaths and went on the run.”

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
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Arcade Dreams

(2018)
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America Online

(2019)
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Deep Blue

(2020)

America Online[6] 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.[1]

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:[7]

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:[8]

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.[9] 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.[10][11]

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News

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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.
15th July, 2024
Music - Days of Thunder was released 10 years ago on this day. Happy 10th anniversary to The Midnight!
18th June, 2024
Tour - A London show has been added to the Summer 2024 EU/UK Tour. The show will be at Electric Ballroom on July 22.

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Did You Know?

  • ...that Tim McEwan co-wrote and produced a song for New Kids On The Block?
  • ...that The Midnight have performed more live shows at The Independent in San Francisco than any other venue?
  • ...that Lost Boy was featured in an episode of 13 Reasons Why?
  • ...that Dream Away was described by Tim McEwan as being an ode to "Pure Moods compilations from the 90s"?
  • ...that The Midnight Remixed was the band's first album to be associated with a label and appear on a Billboard chart?
  • ...that Nighthawks and Lonely City were once one combined song?
  • ...that Tim McEwan once played drums in the Eurovison Song Contest?
  • ...that Tim McEwan's brother Oliver is also a musician, but their parents are actors?
  • ...that Tim McEwan is originally from Copenhagen, Denmark?
  • ...that touring member Lelia Broussard was on the US version of singing competition The Voice?

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Sunset | The Midnight". Bandcamp. May 13, 2016. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
  2. "Sunset (incl. Michael Cassette Remix) | The Midnight". Twitter. August 7, 2017. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  3. "The Midnight Remixed | The Midnight". Bandcamp. August 14, 2017. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  4. "Silk Music Pres. Progressive House Essentials 06 - Monstercat". Monstercat. December 4, 2017. Archived from the original on September 30, 2022. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  5. "Tyler Lyle on Twitter". Twitter. July 1, 2020. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  6. "America Online | The Midnight". Bandcamp. July 10, 2020. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "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.
  10. 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.
  11. "info.cern.ch". CERN. August 6, 1991. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.