Fanatic Promotion: Midnight Faces to follow-up 2013's “Fornication” debut with “The Fire Is Gone,” arriving May 13th.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Midnight Faces to follow-up 2013's “Fornication” debut with “The Fire Is Gone,” arriving May 13th.

Latest track of “crisp, synth-lined pop drama” from Saxon Shore co-founder streaming now via SPIN.

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Midnight Faces (L-R): Matthew Doty, Philip Stancil. Photo Credit: Greer K. Bratschie.

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Hear “Over Again” by Midnight Faces courtesy of SPIN

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“Over Again” is the new single from the upcoming The Fire Is Gone by Midnight Faces

[STREAM]: https://soundcloud.com/midnightfaces/over-again

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“Crisp, synth-lined pop drama.” – SPIN

The Fire Is Gone is the second album by Los Angeles-based duo Midnight Faces, comprised of vocalist Philip Stancil and composer Matthew Doty of Saxon Shore, the pioneering instrumental post-rock band founded by Doty and Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty.

Scheduled for release on May 13^th, the album is the follow-up to 2013’s debut Midnight Faces release Fornication, which despite Doty’s astute reminder that “‘Indie’ and ‘80’s’ are not genres,” reminded folks fondly enough of those sounds to draw the attention of MTV Buzzworthy and MTV Hive along with popular and influential music discovery websites such as Under The Radar, My Old Kentucky Blog, Earmilk, and Baeblemusic among others.

To better understand what The Fire Is Gone is, please understand what it isn’t: No fancy producers, no big name special guests, no one wearing robot costumes, no all-analog studio, and no songs recorded live to tape.

Doty elaborates by explaining, “We made this album by ourselves and for ourselves. We made it in my apartment on a computer one track at a time. If you dig the tunes, cool. If you don’t, that’s cool, too.” Fair enough, but there’s a damn good chance you’ll be landing in the camp of the former.

Still, Doty asserts, “Just what L.A. needs –another fucking 80’s new wave band, right?” Well, no. But when the songs are as good as what Midnight Faces is cranking out, perhaps the listener should be the ultimate judge of that? In fact, The Fire Is Gone is an even more evolved take on the sound that Doty and Stancil already had pretty damn near perfect.

The Fire Is Gone by Midnight Faces arrives on May 13^th, 2014. Matthew Doty and Philip Stancil are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Midnight Faces

The Fire Is Gone

(Broken Factory, May 13^th, 2014)