Midnight (Set It Off Album)

''Midnight'' is the fourth studio album by American band Set It Off. The album was released on February 1, 2019 by record label Fearless Records, being their album debut under this label.

Background

The band changed all of their social media profile photos to a solid blue hue on July 19, 2018. The next days, they posted more teasers heavily focused on: the color blue, the 12:00, an hourglass and the tick of a clock in the background.

Promotion and release

Original release

The band announce that they had signed with Fearless Records with the release of "Killer in the Mirror", the first single of the album, on July 24, 2018. The second single of the album, "Lonely dance", was released on November 19, with a music video. That same day, the band officialy announced ''Midnight'', revealing the track listing, the cover art and the release date. One month later, on December 14, they released the third and fourth singles of the album, "Dancing With The Devil" and "For You Forever". To celebrate the new year, they released "Midnight Thoughts", the fifth single of the album, on January 1, 2019. The sixth and last single of the album "Hourglass" was released on June 21, with a music video.

They announced "The Midnight World Tour" which consisted of four parts. The Part 1 took place in North America on February and March of 2019, with supporters With Confidence and Super Whatevr. Part 2 took place in UK and Europe on April 2019. Part 3 took place in North America on June and July of 2019, with supporters Emarosa, Broadside and Lizzy Farrall. Finally, the Part 4 of the tour, which took place in UK and Europe, had been rescheduled multiple times because of Cody Carson's vocal injury and Coronavirus pandemy.

The Final Chapter/Expanded edition

After the release of the album the band released three Digital B-sides: "Catch Me If You Can" on December 13, 2019, "So Predictable" on January 3, 2020 and "One Single Second" on February 14. The three singles were taken form their EP ''After Midnight'', which also released on February 14. After one year without new material, they announce ''Midnight: The Final Chapter'' (which will contain the original album release and the EP), with the release of an acoustic version of "Killer in the mirror" on May 7, 2021, set to release on June 4 of the same year only by digital streaming. Two more acoustic versions were released: "Lonely Dance" on May 21 and "Happy All the Time" on the same day the expanded edition was released. A music video for the acoustic version of "Happy All tyhe Time" was published on July 13.

Critical reception

The album received positive reviews from critics. Walladmin from Wall of Sound stated that "As a pop album Midnight is a solid effort, with some amazing vocals and ridiculously catchy choruses." Matt Collar from Allmusic wrote that the album "finds the Florida outfit continuing to expand their emo and punk influences with hip-hop and dance influences."

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Mike Green except were noted.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Allmusic.

Set It Off
* Cody Carson – Vocals, Composer
* Zach Dewall – Guitar
* Maxx Danziger – Drums, Percussion
* Dan Clermont – Guitar, Composer

Featured Artists
* KC - Vocals (7)
* Matt Appleton - Vocals (13)
* Skyler Acord - Vocals (15, 21)
* Compton Kidz Club - Chorus (21)

Production
* Mike Green - Composer, mastering, Producer, mixing, Recording, Recording Producer
* Brandon Paddock - Composer, Producer, mixing
* Jordan Witzigreuter - Composer, Producer, Recording Producer (17)

Additional Composers
* Bruce Wiegner (10)
* Cameron Walker (3, 17, 20)
* Eben Wares (4, 18)
* Erik Ron (7)
* Her0ism (4)
* Jayden Seeley (11)
* John Gomez (6)
* Nico Hartikainen (9, 10, 12, 13)
* Simon Wilcox (1, 2, 19)
* Skyler Acord (15, 21)
* Stephen Gomez (6)

Charts

References

{{Set It Off

2019 albums
Set It Off (band) albums
Fearless Records albums