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song infoMidnight by Coldplay (official video) is an ambient electronic song. Song Title: Midnight (official video)Artist: Coldplay Album: Ghost Stories Genre: alternative, electronic, ambient Composer: Copyright © 2013 uy Berryman Jonny, Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin Vocals: Chris Martin Keyboards: Jonny Buckland Reactable: Will Champion Laser harp: Guy Berryman Percussion: Will Champion Director: Mary Wigmore Producer: Coldplay, Paul Epworth, Daniel Green, Rik Simpson, Jon Hopkins Recorded: 2013, The Bakery and The Beehive, London, England Released: 17 April 2014 Label: Parlophone, EMI Number of listens: 13548 Current rank: 2903 (updated weekly) Highest rank: 2903 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song) |
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Summary quotation from Wikipedia:
Midnight is a song recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay for their sixth studio album, Ghost Stories (2014). It was written and produced by band members Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin, with production assistance from Paul Epworth, Daniel Green, and Rik Simpson, and co-production from Jon Hopkins. A music video for the Ghost Stories track was released on 25 February 2014 as a teaser for the then-unannounced sixth studio album. A Midnight 7-inch vinyl single was pressed by Parlophone for Record Store Day 2014. The single, featuring the track on a single side of the record, was released on 17 April 2014, becoming the second release by the band in promotion of Ghost Stories.
Composition
Midnight was built over a previously unreleased original track produced by Jon Hopkins in 2003. The track, named The Fourth State II, was never completed by Hopkins and was partly released by ambient/electronic music blog A Strangely Isolated Place on SoundCloud in early 2012, as part of their playlist ASIP - 1.00.00. The song also incorporates elements from a Jon Hopkins recording titled by Hopkins as The Fourth State II, a reproduction of his 2008 extended play The Fourth Estate.
Recording
The song was recorded by the band during sessions for their sixth studio album in 2013, at their purpose-built studios The Bakery and The Beehive in North London, England, both originally constructed for work on their two previous studio albums, 2008s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and 2011s Mylo Xyloto respectively. Chris Martins recorded vocals for the song were put through a vocoder. The intro track was created using a laser harp and a loop station, as visible in their most recent iTunes Festival show.
Reception
The song received mostly positive reviews from critics, who noted a change in the sound of the band and drew comparisons to Bon Iver and Justin Vernon. Al Horner of NME approved of the bands new musical direction and lauded the song as a dive into icy electronic experimentalism. Contactmusic.coms Lauren James similiary praised the song, writing: gone are the crashing pianos, guitar and soaring vocals of the Brit rockers more famous ballads, replaced with a pared back, minimalist electronic song. Micahel Nelson of Stereogum concurred, commenting that the song brought out Coldplay at their most spacious and ambient, stripped down to a ghostly essence. Writing for PopMatters, Evan Sawdey rated the song 8/10 and summarized it as chilly, this moody, and evocative. Rolling Stones Cory Grow compared Martins vocals to Peter Gabriel as he sings about darkness, while the synths build throughout the track before a skittery, rave-like keyboard line flits about noisy static. Idolators Carl Williot described the song as a haunting electronic soundscape that not only lacks the bands trademark anthemic choruses and stadium-filling guitar lines, but boasts nary a hook and has few decipherable lyrics. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy opined that the song was subdued, murky, twinkling, but definitely not lead single material on first listen and hailed the band for never fail[ing] to shake up their sound and become even more successful with it. Jamieson Cox of Time magazine felt the song never blossoms into one of Coldplays trademark climaxes, instead blurring into a phosphene cloud of synth melodies but praised it for being another step in a new direction for a band thats never been content with staying in place.
Live performances
Midnight was first performed live by Coldplay on the opening night of the 2014 iTunes Festival at SXSW on 12 March 2014 at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. It was performed as the only song during the encore segment of the setlist. Bassist Guy Berryman played the laser harp and Will Champion a Reactable.
Music video
The music video for Midnight was noted for its use of night vision filters.
A 5-minute music video for Midnight, directed by Mary Wigmore, was premiered on music video hosting service Vevo at 6pm UTC (Midnight in Ulan Bator, Mongolia time), on 25 February 2014. The video was shot nearly in its entirety in thermal infrared imaging and negative imagery, incorporating various visual effects. The thermal infrared camera was a FLIR SC8303 with either a 25 or a 50mm prime lens, depending on the shot. The lenses were made by Janos Corporation. The wavelength range is 3 to 5 microns, or mid wave infrared. The thermal infrared video was recorded as HD-SDI on an Atomos Samurai Blade with a 480 GB solid state hard drive. Simultaneously, raw digital video was captured at 30 frames per second into FLIR ExaminIR software. The video was watched over 1 million times in less than 24 hours after it was posted on their Facebook page. Just two days later it reached 3 million views, later passing 13 million views on 21 April 2014.
Giorgio Moroder remix
A remix of Midnight by Italian dance music producer Giorgio Moroder was released by Parlophone on 21 April 2014 as a digital download single.
Critical reception
The remix version of the song has received positive reviews from music critics. Kory Grow of the Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Moroder turned an understated EDM track into a dance floor banger and eight-minute affair with no time squandered: One of Coldplays most unassuming tracks off their forthcoming record Ghost Stories is now its most danceable. He also commented that the producer adds a pounding bass-drum beat from the onset and then uses the synth filigrees toward the end of the track to build it into something that would have once backed Summer. Vocal aahs and soft pads of synths, alongside robotic chanting in French, make the track more Moroder than Martin for the final four minutes.
Mikael Wood of The Los Angeles Times wrote in similar tone, The producers lengthy reworking, which climaxes in a surging synth fantasia complete with robot voices, adds some verve to Coldplays rather sedate original. Tom Breihan of Stereogum noted that while the remix might not have the same spacey majesty as peak Moroder, it still does a nice job translating the inward sweep of the original track into an orchestral disco pulse.
According to Ryan Kristobak of The Huffington Post, Moroder transformed Midnight into a dance-floor hit, without abandoning the songs Brian Eno/Bon Iver-influenced ambience. Idolators Robbie Daw commented, Here Moroder lays a hypnotic click-click-click disco beat below the Kid A-esque atmosphere of the track, and the whole thing eventually builds into a tornado of majestic synths and menacing piano chords. And, of course, no modern day remix by Giorgio Moroder would be complete without the addition of his own ghostly robot vocals.
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