Clip for title track from band’s “Fornication” debut album
features its epic synth-driven melodies, soaring vocals.
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Midnight
Faces (L-R): Philip Stancil, Matthew Warn. Photo Credit: Alexandra Warn.
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Listen to
Midnight Faces
“Holding On” via Under
The Radar
“Holding On” via My Old Kentucky Blog
“Holding On” via MTV
Buzzworthy
“Feel This
Way” via Baeble
Music
“Feel This
Way” remix via Earmilk
“Fornication”
via Diffuser.fm
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See the
video for “Fornication” by Midnight Faces courtesy of MTV
Hive
Midnight
Faces is the L.A.-based (recently
relocated from D.C.) duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Matthew Warn née Matthew Doty (best known as co-founder of post-rock instrumental
pioneers Saxon Shore with Josh Tillman of Father John Misty) and vocalist Philip Stancil. The pair
makes an epic noise on the title track from their debut album Fornication,
out now.
“I wanted to paint a picture of despair, so I headed
to the dark side for this song,” says Stancil
of his soaring vocals on the album’s title tune, which is also the soundtrack
to the band’s first music video. Directed by Stephen Venezia and Dan
Giraldo for Nimblefox Productions,
the clip is set in the late 1800s, a time in early America when people were
personally responsible for burying their own kin.
It is this tradition, as depicted in the video, which
evoked the saying “saved by the bell.” Families would create a safety coffin in
which one would attach a bell above ground and leave a string in the deceased’s
hands below. If the presumed dead were to be mistakenly buried (which was
common at the time) this method would ensure that the “dead” would be able to
call for help. The video for “Fornication” was shot on location
Woodstock, New York in August, 2013.
Warn first began making music with childhood friend Jonny Pierce (of The Drums) when they both were barely into their teens, and later went
on to co-found Saxon Shore,
releasing three EPs, along with two full-length albums produced by Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Tame Impala, Flaming Lips.)
“I had been writing new music during Saxon Shore’s hiatus, with no idea as
to where the songs would end up,” says Warn.
He soon asked future Midnight Faces
bandmate Stancil to take a shot at
adding vocals to a couple of his new tunes.
“That’s when things started to fall into place,” Warn explains. “Our influences seemed so different, but that’s what
makes us unique. It’s like Tom Petty
fronting The Cure.”
Midnight
Faces completed the Fornication
album in Los Angeles with producer Jason
Martin (The Drums, Cold War Kids, Starflyer 59). The album has
already received attention from music discovery sites such as MTV Buzzworthy, Earmilk, Under The Radar,
My Old Kentucky Blog, Baeble Music and more.
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Members of Midnight
Faces are available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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Midnight Faces
Fornication
(Broken Factory, Out Now)
Track Listing:
02. Crowded Halls
05. Give In Give Out
06. Kingdom Come
07. Now I’m Done
08. Identity
09. Turn Back
10. Heartless
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Midnight Faces Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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