DATE AT MIDNIGHT – Wake Up For Obscure Darkwave Speedball ‘RENDEZ-VOUS’

Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

30 July 2024

Band: DATE AT MIDNIGHT
Who: Italian darkwave act conceived in 2007. So far
they recorded/released 4 albums and a couple of EPs.
Check their Spotify and/or Bandcamp account.

References: Joy Division, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy,
The Cure, Christian Death
and Fields of the Nephilim.

Single/video: RENDEZ-VOUS
It’s the opener of their new, 4th longplayer
Fading Into This Grace. Stream it below.

TUTV: Rendez-Vous is a head-spinning, obscure, and hypnotic darkwave speedball
that haunts and scares your ears and eyes from start to finish. It sounds like a
risky blind date with a mysterious soul. AWESOME!

DAM about the new, accompanying video clip: “It recalls the nostalgia and melancholy expressed by the song. The story of the protagonist Alessandra Piscopo, an actress already known to audiences of the big and small screen, is intertwined with that of an enigmatic figure, waiting for an appointment that will eventually (perhaps?) arrive in a totally unexpected way. Set in a labyrinthine and evocative Rome, strictly in b/w, the video is shot by Laurivisual, who curated the subject together with us.”

Wake up, people,
you have a date.

Réveillez-vous, hommes
vous avez un rendez-vous.

Fading Into This Grace


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DATE AT MIDNIGHT – Italian Goths Grab You By The Throat With Maddening Missile ‘ANOTHER GRACE’

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1 April 2024

DATE AT MIDNIGHT formed in Rome in 2007, having as their primary references bands such as Joy Division, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Christian Death and Fields of the Nephilim. So far DAM have 2 albums on their résumé. No Love (2011), and Songs To Fall And Forget (2016). A brand-new third one, titled Fading Into This Grace will be launched on May 3 via Manic Depression Records.

Ahead of it comes the first single, named ANOTHER GRACE.

Expect a maddening missile charged with schizophrenic guitars making
your head spin uncontrollably like Linda Blair in The Exorcist, with haunting
bass riffage, with hammering drumming and spooky vocals. Another Grace
grabs you by the throat from the kick-off and never loses its firm grip.

Gothic melodrama at its Darkwave cutting best.

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