"Dancing With The Devil" Released: December 14, 2018
"For You Forever" Released: December 14, 2018
"Midnight Thoughts" Released: January 1, 2019
"Hourglass" Released: June 21, 2019
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.[4]
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.[5]
The band announced their signing with Fearless Records with the release of "Killer in the Mirror", the first single of the album, on July 24, 2018.[6] The second single of the album, "Lonely Dance", was released on November 19, with a music video. That same day, the band officially announced Midnight, revealing the track listing, the cover art and the release date.[7] One month later, on December 14, they released the third and fourth singles of the album, "Dancing With The Devil" and "For You Forever".[8] To celebrate the new year, they released "Midnight Thoughts", the fifth single of the album, on January 1, 2019.[9] The sixth and last single of the album "Hourglass" was released on June 21 along with a new music video.[10]
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.[11] Part 2 took place in UK and Europe in April 2019.[12] Part 3 took place in North America on June and July of 2019, with supporters Emarosa, Broadside and Lizzy Farrall.[13] 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.[14][15][16][17]
After the release of the album the band released three Digital B-sides: "Catch Me If You Can" on December 13, 2019,[18] "So Predictable" on January 3, 2020[19] and "One Single Second" on February 14.[20] The three singles were taken from their EP After Midnight, which also released on February 14. The band later announced Midnight: The Final Chapter (which contained the contents of the original album 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.[21] Two more acoustic versions were released: "Lonely Dance" on May 21[22] and "Happy All the Time" on the same day the expanded edition was released.[23] A music video for the acoustic version of "Happy All the Time" was published on July 13.[24]
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."[1] 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."[3]
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