The Midnight is an American

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band composed of

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-based singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle and

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-based Danish-born producer, songwriter, and singer Tim McEwan.

Origins

The band was formed as a result of Lyle and McEwan meeting during a co-writing workshop in 2012 in

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. Inspired in part by the score for ''

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'', and the retro synth genre growing around its release, the pair wrote two singles, "WeMoveForward" and "Gloria", that would be released two years later in 2014 as part of their debut EP titled ''Days of Thunder''.

Career

In 2016, the duo released a 12 track LP, ''Endless Summer'', followed in 2017 with the release of ''Nocturnal'', which spent several weeks as a best seller on the music distribution website

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and reached number 17 on ''Billboard''s Dance/Electronic charts in October 2017. The band went on to perform their second sell-out concert, taking place at the Globe Theatre on

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in Los Angeles in November 2017. The band had multiple collaborations with

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, another retro synth genre producer. One of the collaborations appears on the album ''Nocturnal'', titled "River of Darkness". The other collaboration between them appears on the album ''Night Drive'' of

, titled "Static". The band's motto is "" (), a Japanese phrase that loosely translates to "a sense of nostalgic wistfulness and the awareness that nothing lasts forever". In 2019 McEwan appeared in the documentary film ''

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genre. McEwan appeared alongside various other composers from the scene, including

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, who also starred in and narrated the film. During the beginning of the

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, The Midnight hosted a remix competition called Remix Radio, providing the stems of multiple songs they had produced on their website for free. On April 3, 2020, the livestream premiered on

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for one hour and thirty minutes.

Personal lives

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Discography

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Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Extended plays

Singles

Remixes

References

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