#The midnight wave radio show skin#

Their fateful pairing in Los Angeles yielded DAYS OF THUNDER, which features concert staples “Gloria” and “Los Angeles” and laid the foundation for The Midnight’s seamless blend of stirring narratives and magnetic electronic music. Lyle hails from the Alabama-Georgia line, forging an indie-folk music career, releasing albums such as THE GOLDEN AGE & THE SILVER GIRL and co-writing music with Court Yard Hounds, among other acts. McEwan grew up in Denmark and got his start in pop-music production working with acts like Sean “Diddy” Combs, New Kids on the Block, and The Wanted before he and Lyle met in 2014 in Los Angeles. The ingredients of this come from a blend of markedly different experiences. These architects use meticulously crafted music, a stunning visual aesthetic, and engaging live shows to tap into our quietest and most wistful tendences, the unbridled sense of joy we have within us, and our infinite desire to surrender ourselves to the collective charisma of togetherness. Since their beginning McEwan and Lyle have been building progressively more complex yet eminently relatable worlds - their most-recent effort earning the top spot on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic charts and getting songs placed in shows like 13 Reasons Why.

Fans see themselves in the movement and want to bring in more people. They show up by the thousands to sold-out shows on multiple continents. They blast the records at parties and crank up the volume on their car stereos. They come together, 15,000 at once, to experience a livestream benefit the band puts together. Fans come together online on every platform imaginable, streaming and downloading their previous releases – Endless Summer (2016), Nocturnal (2017) and Kids (2018) millions of times, and jumping over to spaces like social media and Reddit to hermeneutically dissect The Midnight’s body of work with a loving passion. This movement McEwan and Lyle have been building since 2014 began online with their debut album DAYS OF THUNDER, and over the past six years has become an encompassing, multi-sensory opportunity to find community wherever someone goes. Each song cultivates a story written on a bedrock of universal themes and eternal hooks, coming together to create a body of work that unifies an enthusiastic global fan base. Their music fuses this Americana with an evocative electronic palette that incorporates synth-driven film scores, dance music, synth-pop, and rock, creating an enveloping harmony of richly textured sonics and poignant lyrical imagery. The Midnight, the duo of producer Tim Daniel McEwan and singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle, are masters of flipping the disparate archetypes of yearning American youth - think everything from John Hughes films and the Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” music video to Snapchats of ravers losing it to a big bass drop and the lonesome sway of the “lofi hip hop radio – beats to study / relax to” YouTube channel - into their own modern collage that finds a throughline between generations of teenage ennui.

That’s the goal: Give the audience enough raw material to make the world their own.” The better the symbol and the more universal the myth, the more people can create a world for themselves from their memories and desires.

#The midnight wave radio show skin#

We’re trying to put a skin around the symbols and myths that civilization has told itself for 10,000 years.