MIDNIGHT RODEO – Chaos Era – LP – Vinyl

Description

LP – Black Vinyl.

Nottingham-based Midnight Rodeo are a collective of five close friends who met on thecitys live circuit. Signing with FatCat Records in 2022, theyve released four singles to date,and now have their debut album, Chaos Era, ready to go.

Extensive, relentless touring (sold-out hometown shows,The Great Escape, Dot To Dot,and Kendall Calling) created a tight-knit family, their pleasure in playing as an ensemble isinstantly evident on the album. When asked about this theyll explain, We want people totap into why we are always smiling on stage.

The songs are collaborative efforts. Their different musical backgrounds result in a genrecriss-crossing and totally unique creative collisions. Bassist Harry says, What we do isDada-istic. The drums play hooks, the bass plays parts usually taken by brass, the guitarsplaying West Coast psyche over disco rhythms.

Written over a prolonged period of time, the songs on the album can be viewed as a kind ofcoming-of-age suite, as the unit of 20-somethings wrestle with subjects such asrelationships, shifting social dynamics, changing hopes and dreams. The LPs title refers totumultuous personal events theyve helped each other through. Reinforcing their bonding.With no pointed political agenda, the album is about escape. We want people to dance, they say.

The band recorded the album with Samanas Franklin Mockett. Making full use of the
acclaimed duos residential studio, located deep in the Welsh countryside, during an Indiansummer heatwave. The aim was to remove all distractions, and, with Mocketts assistance,capture the group as live, and as analogue, as possible. For 10 days, in sometimes 16 hoursessions, music, incense, and whiskey flowed, while vintage amp valves glowed.

Just like the bands live performances, Chaos Era is packed with a palpable joy. The
exhilaration of creation in each others company. Its punchy production is most definitelymeant to be played loud.

Tracklist:

Side A
01. Strange Eyes
02. Cleanshirt
03. Daisy
04. I Can Say Anything
05. El Medina
06. Dixon

Side B
01. Growl
02. Vulture Vulture
03. Buggin Out
04. Captains Table
05. Nothing To You