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Midnight Rodeo - Chaos Era

Midnight Rodeo - Chaos Era

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Release Date 11/07/2025
Format LP Black
Label FatCat Records
Catalogue Number FATLP181

 

Nottingham-based Midnight Rodeo are a collective of five close friends who met on the
city’s live circuit. Signing with FatCat Records in 2022, they’ve released four singles to date, and now have their debut album, “Chaos Era”, ready to go.
Extensive, relentless touring (sold-out hometown shows,The Great Escape, Dot To Dot,
and Kendall Calling) created a tight-knit family, their pleasure in playing as an ensemble is instantly evident on the album. When asked about this they’ll explain, “We want people to tap into why we are always smiling on stage.”
The songs are collaborative efforts. Their different musical backgrounds result in a genre
criss-crossing and totally unique creative collisions. Bassist Harry says, “What we do is
Dada-istic. The drums play hooks, the bass plays parts usually taken by brass, the guitar’s
playing West Coast psyche over disco rhythms.”
Written over a prolonged period of time, the songs on the album can be viewed as a kind of coming-of-age “suite”, as the unit of 20-somethings wrestle with subjects such as
relationships, shifting social dynamics, changing hopes and dreams. The LP’s title refers to tumultuous personal events they’ve helped each other through. Reinforcing their bonding.
With no pointed political agenda, the album is about “escape”. “We want people to dance”, they say.
The band recorded the album with Samana’s Franklin Mockett. Making full use of the
acclaimed duo’s residential studio, located deep in the Welsh countryside, during an Indian summer heatwave. The aim was to remove all distractions, and, with Mockett’s assistance, capture the group as live, and as analogue, as possible. For 10 days, in sometimes 16 hour sessions, music, incense, and whiskey flowed, while vintage amp valves glowed.
Just like the band’s live performances, “Chaos Era” is packed with a palpable joy. The
exhilaration of creation in each others company. Its punchy production is most definitely
meant to be played loud.

Tracklist:

01. Dixon

02. Cleanshirt

03. Growl

04. Daisy

05. Captain’s Table

06. I Can Say Anything

07. El Medina

08. Strange Eyes

09. Vulture Vulture

10. Buggin Out

11. Nothing To You

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