| “Playful electronic pop with an uncanny quality” – The Fader “Surreal and striking” – Clash Born At Midnite release new EP Alternity out today on Arbutus Records. Employing samplers, tape machines, and an extemporaneous approach to songwriting, Alternity sees the duo treading further into their signature brand of unsponsored ‘product-placement-punk’. For the uninitiated, Born At Midnite have been lauded by the likes of Clash, The Fader and Gorilla vs Bear, with theduo carving a niche playing those post-party hits. Born At Midnite is the faux-vanity project of Amery Sandford and David Carriere. Jamming strictly ‘post-party’ with a finish line posture – either completing or scrapping a song in a single evening – the Montreal based duo began writing together in late 2018. Playing into whilst poking fun at our era’s omnipresent narcissism and self indulgence, the group stitch together an unsponsored sort of ‘product-placement-punk’. Pre-inevitable virality, the major label industry plants have embedded themselves into a local music community to gain authenticity with their new cassette, Alternity. On their most substantial release to date, all four songs are absolute unit-shifters. In the impressively casual opener Y o Y, Amery ambivalently questions times past while concurrently opening her compact. The track is bookended with Siri’s cousin and hype woman come-lately delivering pure inter-dimensional knowledge that might just make your head hurt like mad. Set to a beat that reeks like a teenage (discman-era) suburban gangster’s weed, the album’s namesake Alternity – a word which has always existed – vaguely details a gloomy retreat clouded by the inviting, nonchalant darkness associated with luxury. The tape’s closer – Rockstar Raver – transforms genres and hairstyles as it skips across the jaded stepping stones between walled gardens. Whether you’re playing the same 3 chords, to the same 3 boys, in the same 3 bars, or you’re taking the same 3 drugs, in the same 3 clubs, and you just need a hug… Amery Sandford is a visual artist and the causal power-pop songstress of Alpen Glow. David Carriere is a producer, songwriter, and guitarist in the band TOPS, most recently working with Marci on her self-titled debut. Born At Midnite – Alternity // Arbutus Records – 18/11/23 |
| stream/pre-order cassettehttps://arbutusrecords.lnk.to/Alternity |
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