MIDNITE CITY – Midnite City (2017)
MIDNITE CITY is a new English band led by Rob Wylde (ex Teenage Casket Company, Vega), who also fronts Tigertailz for some time now. For the band’s self-titled debut “Midnite City” on AOR Heaven Records, Wylde teamed up with Tainted Nation / Eden’s Curse’s Pete Newdeck (who back in 2014 released one of the best British AOR albums In Faith’s ‘There’s A Storm Coming’) a partner in crime who can deliver the Melodic Rock sound we all know and love, and that Wylde has been searching for.
This album is very special indeed. Wylde and Newdeck have managed to replicate the sound and feel of the late ’80s / early ’90s bands such as Danger Danger, Lillian Axe, Autograph, but also bring it smack bang into the now.
The optimism of the opening trio of ‘We Belong’, ‘Ghost Of My Old Friends’ and ‘Summer Of Our Lives’ is infectious. The feeling I get when listening to ‘Ghost of My Old Friends’ rings true so for so many reasons. Be it old places that have gone, or friends no longer with us, to me it’s about remembering where you’ve come from and also looking to the future of what’s yet to come.
Up next is the first single, which is ‘Summer Of Our Lives’, which does sound a lot like the recent release from Degreed. Wylde and co. deliver a glorious, feel-good summer song. One of the shining lights on this band is the guitar work of Wylde and new kid Miles Meakin – who shreds with the best of them.
On ‘Nothin’s Like Losing You’, the band slow things down but still deliver a killer hook. Same goes with the acoustic led ‘Everything You Meant To Me’.
With ‘One Step Away’, Midnite City take the storytelling up a notch and sound all the better for it. Another thing I love about this album, is the perfect blend of styles ranging from AOR, cock rock and power pop all in one great, big sounding CD.
All killer no filler is definitely an apt tagline for this album. “Midnite City” has it all: catchy melodies, hooks galore, great musicianship and a sweet production.
This is more than a love letter to the feel-good rock of before ,and that’s the thing I love about this album: the positive vibes I, as the listener, get and will feel when I listen back to it, as I can guarantee that this CD will be getting spun for quite some time.
A fantastic debut album from one of the UK’s newest melodic rock bands.
Highly Recommended
01. We Belong
02. Ghost Of My Old Friends
03. Summer Of Our Lives
04. Nothing’s Like Losing You
05. Last Beat Of My Heart
06. Everything You Meant To Me
07. Can’t Wait For The Nights
08. One Step Away
09. I Just Can’t Take It
10. Things She Said
11. Think About You
Rob Wylde (Tigertailz, ex Vega) – Lead Vocals & Guitar
Pete Newdeck (Newman, Eden’s Curse) – Drums, Backing Vocals
Miles Meakin – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Shawn Charvette – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Josh ‘Tabbie’ Williams – Bass, Backing Vocals
mastered by Harry Hess (Harem Scarem)
BUY IT !
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