Duo to play record release show tonight at L.A.’s
Bootleg Theater in celebration of “The Fire Is Gone” full-length.
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Midnight
Faces (L-R): Matthew Doty, Philip Stancil. Photo Credit: Greer K. Bratschie.
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“Crisp,
synth-lined pop drama.” – SPIN
“This record
is solid from start to finish.” – Nylon
Guys
“Full of air
and catchiness.” – The
Onion A.V. Club
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See Midnight
Faces live in Los Angeles tonight as part of Blind Date at the Bootleg
Bar. RSVP here!
“I think if we dig into ‘Hold Tight’ a little bit, there’s something about being patient in
there,” says Matt Doty, one half-of
Los Angeles-based duo Midnight Faces
along with vocalist Philip Stancil.
The video for the song from the band’s sophomore album The Fire Is Gone is streaming
now via Conan O’ Brien’s Team
Coco website.
Doty continues, “We’re both pretty patient guys – it’s
kind of a prerequisite for releasing your own music. And even thought it requires patience, there’s
validation in maintaining control of what you create.” Doty
has been patient for a while, having composed music for post-rock instrumental
pioneers Saxon Shore (the band he
co-founded with Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty) for over a decade, and
as such, he knows how to get what he wants sonically.
“To better understand what The Fire Is Gone is,
please understand what it isn’t,” he explains. “No fancy producers, no big name
special guests, no one wearing robot costumes, no all-analog studio, and no
songs recorded live to tape. We made this album by ourselves and for
ourselves. We made it in my apartment on
a computer one track at a time.”
Of the “Hold
Tight” video Doty explains, “It
was pretty impulsive overall.” The clip is a joyous tour of Los Angeles that
sees the Midnight Faces guys dancing
in the Saddleback Butte State Park desert, the fields of Mugu State Park, the
Angeles National Forest mountains, downtown, and at the Santa Monica beach.
“We set aside a few days to shoot it and headed out to
the desert,” Doty says. “After a few shots, we decided we were having
more fun dancing than walking around.”
It’s fun for the viewer, too. The
clip perfectly captures the humanity behind the insular circumstances of the
album’s creation.
The Fire Is Gone by Midnight Faces is the
follow-up to 2013’s Fornication debut, which despite Doty’s assertion 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 Earmilk, Under The Radar, My Old
Kentucky Blog, and Baeblemusic among others.
Matthew Doty
and Philip Stancil of Midnight Faces are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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Midnight Faces
The Fire Is
Gone
(Broken Factory, Out Now)
1. Wake Me
2. Over Again (STREAM)
3. Shadows
5. This Time (STREAM)
6. Give It Up
7. Animal
8. The Fire Is Gone
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Midnight Faces Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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