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Jesse Molloy
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 Molloy performing live with The Midnight in 2021 | |
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| Birth name | Jesse Carey Molloy |
| Born | April 29, 1975 |
| Origin | Ashland, Oregon, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2001–present |
| Member of | Crush Effect |
Jesse Carey Molloy (born April 29, 1975)[1][2][3] is an American saxophone player and music producer originating from Ashland, Oregon. He is currently based in Los Angeles.
At the age of nine, Molloy was at a local church with his family and saw a man playing Amazing Grace on the saxophone. This inspired him to also want to play the instrument, and his parents got him an alto saxophone the following Christmas.[4] Molloy received private lessons and also played in his high school's band.
Molloy graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2001[1] and after college joined a soul-jazz group based in San Diego, California. The group toured frequently and averaged about 150 shows a year. He later relocated to San Diego full time and began playing with several local bands and touring groups before moving to Los Angeles. Molloy did some shows with T-Boz from the group TLC as well as Mike Posner.[4] He was a long time touring member of the group The Pink Floyd Experience. Since 2009, he has been a member of the production duo Crush Effect with David Veith.[5][6][7][8] Molloy began touring with Panic! at the Disco in 2017.[9]
In 2017, Molloy was recruited by The Midnight to play the saxophone at the band's first-ever live show in San Francisco.[10][11] He continued to played saxophone for most of the band's live shows up until the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour. Molloy played the saxophone on the song Deep Blue from The Midnight's 2020 album Monsters. This was his first time playing saxophone for the band on a studio release. Later in 2020, he contributed to the band's EP Horror Show, co-writing the song Good in Red and playing the saxophone on Because The Night. In 2022, Molloy played saxophone on the track Brooklyn. Friday. Love. from the album Heroes.[12]
Contributions to songs by The Midnight
- Deep Blue - saxophone
- Good in Red - co-writer
- Because The Night - saxophone
- Brooklyn. Friday. Love. - saxophone
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jesse Molloy | LinkedIn". LinkedIn. January 1, 2010.
- ↑ "Jesse Molloy on Twiiter: "Today is my Birthday and I am so grateful. Thankful for another year around the sun and all of you that have been a part of it. 🖤 This is my wife and I pre-Corona quarantine in palm springs. I love this pic bc it…" / Twitter". Twitter. April 29, 2020. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Today is my Birthday and I am so grateful. Thankful for another year around the sun and all of you that have been a part of it. 🖤 This is… | Instagram". Instagram. April 29, 2020. Archived from the original on May 1, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Meet Jesse Molloy - Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide". Voyage LA Magazine. June 17, 2020. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Crush Effect". Crush Effect. January 1, 2020. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
- ↑ "Crush Effect on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Jesse Molloy – Claude Lakey Woodwinds". Claude Lakey Woodwinds. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ Horne, Jackie Moon (March 21, 2014). "Crush Effect - Until The Next [Pay What You Want]". Sensible Reason. Archived from the original on July 22, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
- ↑ "Saxophone sensation: On Tour with Panic! At the Disco - SOU News". Southern Oregon University. September 18, 2017. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Thanks San Fran! Last Friday! @themidnightofficial 📷 @turbodrivesf #saxophone #themidnight | Instagram". Instagram. July 21, 2017. Archived from the original on March 25, 2024. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Beyond Synth 170 - Soundcloud". Soundcloud. Archived from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2022.
- ↑ "Jesse Molloy on X: "BTS snap from recording sax for Brooklyn.Friday Love @TheMidnightLA @tylerlyle on FaceTime right side laptop 🎉🎵@TheMidnightLA big love & thanks Tim & Tyler! What a song! #themidnight #saxophone #LA #brooklyn #friday #love" / X". Twitter. August 3, 2022. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
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Photograph
| "Photograph" | |
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| Song by The Midnight | |
| from the album Heroes | |
| Released | September 9, 2022 |
| Length | 2:37 |
| Label | Counter Records |
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| Producer(s) | Tim McEwan |
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Photograph is a song by The Midnight. It is the twelfth track from their album Heroes.[1]
The song was written by band members Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan and was produced by McEwan. It has a running time of two minutes and 37 seconds and is in the key of D minor.
Lyrics
Take a picture of your life
Put it on your bedroom wall
Check on it from time to time
Make sure that you don't lose heart
Take a picture of your life
Frame by frame
Profiles in courage
Name by name
Put a picture of your sadness
Next to one from better days
It's a holy madness
There's holy joy and there's holy pain
You came to bum a smoke
We stayed together as the seasons passed
You left with a story
And a shoebox of photographs
Lightning
The cameras are flashing
The moments are passing
The proof of it all
Lightning
Petty and tragic
The horror
The magic
Remember it all
Official versions
Photograph - Instrumental
from Heroes (& Instrumentals)
References
- ↑ "Photograph | The Midnight". Bandcamp. September 9, 2022. Archived from the original on September 9, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
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Heroes
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| Released | September 9, 2022 | |||
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| Length | 56:47 | |||
| Label | Counter Records | |||
| Producer | Tim McEwan | |||
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Heroes is the fifth album by The Midnight. It is was released on September 9, 2022.[3][4] Five singles were issued from Heroes prior to the album's release: Change Your Heart or Die, Heartbeat, Avalanche, Brooklyn. Friday. Love., and Heart Worth Breaking.
Background and composition
This wiki article is currently being worked on. More info will be added soon.
Heroes is the culmination of a trilogy that began with Kids and Monsters. The writing sessions during Kids yielded many songs and ideas that did not make the album due to time constraints, so it was decided to extend the story arc of Kids across multiple albums.[5]
In early 2021, Tim McEwan began streaming the creation of new songs on Twitch. Several of the songs previewed during those sessions found their way to Heroes. Aside from Twitch, previews and hints of new material on the band's other social media platforms was minimal compared to previous The Midnight releases.
During the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Tour, The Midnight began playing a new song, Change Your Heart or Die. The song was teased as being on the next record.
Official description
“The last 2 years have been so hard for so many people. ‘Heartbeat’ is a reminder that love and empathy is not a finite resource. There is love enough.” – The Midnight
8th June 2022 – The Midnight are thrilled to be announcing their new full-length studio album Heroes – due out September 9th via Counter Records. Along with the news, the band is releasing the celebratory new single “Heartbeat” – a rousing and electrifying track that helps set the tone for the album, which was written during isolation by the band’s Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle. Heroes represents a clear sonic shift for the duo, who have expanded their lineup to include three live musicians – Lelia Broussard on bass, Royce Whittaker on guitar, and Justin Klunk on saxophone and synth – with both Broussard and Whittaker working alongside them on the new LP which was produced by McEwan and mixed by Ingmar Carlson (Tate McCrae, Disclosure, Carly Rae Jepsen).
Heroes is also the third in a trilogy of albums that started with 2018’s Kids – which reached #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Chart – and was followed in 2020 with Monsters. “…for me, Kids is self-knowledge, Monsters is self-love, and then Heroes is empathy,” said Lyle. “I got into depth psychology and this idea of etiology, the way a human forms,” he said about Heroes, adding that “the world doesn't get better but we do. We grow into ourselves. We grow into our voice.”
You can hear this shift in the new songs which are more visceral and warmer. For a band that started as a synth-heavy duo, they have come a long way – creating fully realized arena worthy songs. From new single “Heartbeat” with its Van Halen-inspired synth leads, echoing drums, layered vocal chants and an explosive chorus to last month’s single, the propulsive guitar-laden “Change Your Heart or Die” – Heroes ushers in The Midnight’s next era with some of their biggest and boldest songs yet.
While taking a huge sonic step forward on Heroes, the band’s music still possesses the dramatic and nostalgic streak they’ve become known for since their 2014 debut in EP Days of Thunder. The new LP also reflects the confidence they’ve gained in their songwriting thanks in part due to their expanded live lineup. The band’s vivid sound is well-suited to full rock instrumentation, and the five-piece has cemented that in front on massive sold-out crowds this past year in 1-2k-capacity venues, up from 500-capacity clubs in 2019 and looking ahead to selling out London’s 5k-person Brixton Academy and similar sized venues in 2022.
Heroes is an album of songs about togetherness and trials won by love. Listen to both “Heartbeat” and “Change Your Heart or Die” now.
Singles
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Golden Gate" | 6:04 | |
| 2. | "Brooklyn. Friday. Love." |
| 3:52 |
| 3. | "Heartbeat" |
| 3:50 |
| 4. | "A Place of Her Own" |
| 5:33 |
| 5. | "Heroes" |
| 5:13 |
| 6. | "Heart Worth Breaking" |
| 5:07 |
| 7. | "Loved By You" |
| 3:44 |
| 8. | "Aerostar" |
| 4:55 |
| 9. | "Change Your Heart or Die" |
| 3:31 |
| 10. | "Avalanche" |
| 4:27 |
| 11. | "Souvenir" |
| 3:34 |
| 12. | "Photograph" |
| 2:37 |
| 13. | "Energy Never Dies, It Just Transforms" |
| 4:20 |
| Total length: | 56:47 | ||
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| 14. | "Golden Gate (Demo)" |
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| 15. | "A Place of Her Own (Demo)" |
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| 16. | "Change Your Heart or Die (Live)" |
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| 17. | "Souvenir (Tyler's Version - 2019)" | Lyle | |
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Recorded in Atlanta|GA and Los Angeles|CA
Mixed by Ingmar Carlson at The Gift Shop in Los Angeles|CA
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York|NY
Charts
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200 | 134 |
| US Billboard Album Sales | 8 |
| US Billboard Current Album Sales | 8 |
| US Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums | 3 |
| US Billboard Heatseekers Albums | 2 |
| US Billboard Independent Albums | 22 |
| US Billboard Vinyl ALbums | 4 |
| UK Albums | 74 |
Release history and variants
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| September 9, 2022 | Standard |
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| October 28, 2022 | Instrumentals |
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| Year | Format | Color/Design |
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| 2022 | Cassette | Translucent Blue |
  First tape variant. Has fold out J-card insert. | ||
| 2022 | CD | - |
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| 2022 | LP | Translucent Blue |
 One of the first vinyl variants, alongside the Marbled Violet Deluxe and Spotify Fans First Clear with Splatter variants. This variant was also available to buy signed by Tim and Tyler.
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| 2022 | LP | Clear with Splatter |
 One of the first vinyl variants, alongside the Marbled Violet Deluxe and Translucent Blue variants. Designated as the "Spotify Fans First Edition". Top listeners of The Midnight on Spotify were emailed a link to buy this variant.
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| 2022 | LP | Marbled Violet |
 One of the first vinyl variants, alongside the Translucent Blue and Spotify Fans First Clear with Splatter variants. Designated as the "Deluxe Edition". Additional features of this variant include a third record with four bonus tracks, lenticular cover art, a sticker sheet, and a photo booklet. With the exception of Souvenir (Tyler's Version - 2019), the bonus tracks have not been released outside of this variant.
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References
- ↑ "The Midnight - Heroes Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ↑ Crumlish, Callum (September 8, 2022). "The Midnight: Heroes review - Saving music with their best album yet". Express.co.uk.
- ↑ "ｔｈｅ ｍｉｄｎｉｇｈｔ on Twitter". Twitter. June 8, 2022. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Heroes | The Midnight". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on June 8, 2022. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
- ↑ Laing, Rob (September 1, 2022). "Interview: The Midnight's Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle talk synthwave, soundscaping and new album Heroes | MusicRadar". MusicRadar. Archived from the original on September 8, 2022. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
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