Thing For You by Oblique & Bunny X is less a song about 'the one that got away' and more about that certain someone that might still live somewhere in our minds in a distant but fond way. That person that is no longer a big presence in our lives but that tends to pop into our head every so often like old memories often do. That person who, for one reason or another, we can't be with whether due to timing or just the fact that we are only able to work with the information we have at the time.

Then, life moves on and we make our choices and even when we feel instinctively that we made the right ones, sometimes we can't help but wonder what life would look like had we gone down a different path.

It's the impossible human condition and the often insatiable curiosity of life's many 'sliding doors' and the time traveling we do both subconsciously and in our dreams, whether it's thinking back to a particular time and place in our lives or thinking about someone we miss, someone that is lost to time.

The Midnight are thrilled to be announcing their new full-length studio album Heroes – due out September 9th via Counter Records.

Heroes is the third in a trilogy of albums that started with 2018’s Kids – which reached #1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Chart – and was followed in 2020 with Monsters. “…for me, Kids is self-knowledge, Monsters is self-love, and then Heroes is empathy,” said Lyle. “I got into depth psychology and this idea of etiology, the way a human forms,” he said about Heroes, adding that “the world doesn't get better but we do. We grow into ourselves. We grow into our voice.”

You can hear this shift in the new songs which are more visceral and warmer. For a band that started as a synth-heavy duo, they have come a long way – creating fully realized arena worthy songs. From “Heartbeat” with its Van Halen-inspired synth leads, echoing drums, layered vocal chants and an explosive chorus to the propulsive guitar-laden “Change Your Heart or Die” – Heroes ushers in The Midnight’s next era with some of their biggest and boldest songs yet.

While taking a huge sonic step forward on Heroes, the band’s music still possesses the dramatic and nostalgic streak they’ve become known for since their 2014 debut in EP Days of Thunder. The new LP also reflects the confidence they’ve gained in their songwriting thanks in part due to their expanded live lineup. The band’s vivid sound is well-suited to full rock instrumentation, and the five-piece has cemented that in front on massive sold-out crowds this past year in 1-2k-capacity venues, up from 500-capacity clubs in 2019 and looking ahead to selling out London’s 5k-person Brixton Academy and similar sized venues in 2022.

Empathy Test's first live album, recorded live, on their 2020 headline tour of Germany. No overdubs, no autotune or pitch correction, just the raw recordings mixed and mastered by non-performing producer member, Adam Relf.