THE MIDNIGHT – Syndicate 2025, MP3+FLAC

‘‘Syndicate” is the sixth album by the awesome combo THE MIDNIGHT, to be released on October 3, 2025, and is their first release under Ultra Records.

We love THE MIDNIGHT the synthwave duo composed of producer Tim McEwan and singer-songwriter Tyler Lyle. Synths, drums, and overall production are handled by McEwan, with Lyle providing guitar, lyrics, and his smooth vocals.
Since they emerged 2012, we featured all their works here, as their melodies are fully 80s inspired. They are a full band, complete with electric guitar, drums, sax, and perform live – THE MIDNIGHT aren’t a Lab project, they are a real rock&pop / Lite AOR force.
”Syndicate” is a 17-track opus that took over two years to craft and reaffirms the band’s place as one of the genre’s most emotionally expansive and sonically imaginative forces. There’s some awesome songs on this album plus short instrumentals, for sure THE MIDNIGHT most complete album to date.

”Syndicate” launches a bold new chapter for The Midnight — one that balances widescreen ambition with a deeply personal return to form. Where 2022’s ‘Heroes’ closed a trilogy (Kids, Monsters, Heroes) and leaned into glossy pop-rock textures, ”Syndicate” revisits the shimmering synthwave DNA that first defined the band, offering a soundscape that feels both dreamy and comfortingly familiar.
Built around a loose conceptual arc — a future world where Earth is dead and all that remains is a signal, a broadcast of songs and stories — ”Syndicate” is a transmission from the edge of memory, identity, and connection.

The release follows the band’s sold-out 2024 North American co-headlining tour with Chromeo, as well as celebrated headline runs in Australia and India, and the 10th anniversary of their debut EP — ‘Days of Thunder’. It’s a culmination of a decade-long journey that’s seen The Midnight evolve from underground favorites to a global touring act with a fiercely dedicated fanbase.

While Syndicate’s lyrics embrace the unsettled, sometimes paranoid side of the 1980s (few reminisces of the period focus on how preoccupied by nuclear war the Eighties were) Lyle’s creative partner Tim McEwan brings undertones of anxiety and even doom to the lush synth washes and hooky yet unexpected chord progressions that fans of The Midnight have come to know and love.
Highly Recommended

 

01 – Syndicate (Intro)
02 – Shadowverse
03 – Runaways (feat. Bonnie McKee)
04 – Friction
05 – The Right Way
06 – Afterglow pt. 1
07 – Digital Dreams
08 – Sentinels
09 – Chariot
10 – First Night In Paris (feat. Carpenter Brut)
11 – Afterglow pt. 2
12 – Fatal Obsession (feat. Jupiter Winter)
13 – Quiet Earth
14 – Long Island
15 – Love Is an Ocean
16 – Sanctuary
17 – Summer’s Ending Soon

Vocals, Guitar: Tyler Lyle
Keys, Drums, Synths: Tim McEwan

Royce Whittaker – Guitar, Background Vocals
J3P0 – Intro Synth Pads (track 1)
Oliver McEwan – Synth Bass
Thomas Edinger – Saxophone (track 3)
Jacob Scesney – Saxophone (track 15)
Lelia Broussard – Background Vocals, Lead Vocals (track 12)

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