Chaos Era Midnight Rodeo

• 1 Dixon 04:25
• 2 Cleanshirt 03:08
• 3 Growl 03:16
• 4 Daisy 02:54
• 5 Captain's Table 04:29
• 6 I Can Say Anything 03:18
• 7 El Medina 03:30
• 8 Strange Eyes 04:12
• 9 Vulture Vulture 03:41
• 10 Buggin' Out 04:57
• 11 Nothing To You 07:01
• Total Runtime 44:51

Info for Chaos Era

Signing with FatCat Records in 2022, and having released four singles to date, Nottingham-based Midnight Rodeo have now delivered their debut album, “Chaos Era”.

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.

Midnight Rodeo

Midnight Rodeo
formed out of the oscillating melting pot that is Nottingham, 6 friends who had plied their wares in various other projects were eventually bound together in the prodigiously convenient summer of 2021. Assembled by Maddy Chamberlain with the sole objective of banishing previous sonic shackles, such as compromising to ideals & hunting for vague ideas of success. Their tenacity is birthed from a fierce will to ensure their primary concept is a celebration of joy and a collective appreciation for the wonderfully weird.

After a few short months of writing together, they signed with FatCat Records in 2022 and immediately came 3 singles (Now You’re Gone, Shootout Sunday & The Big Melt) accompanied by a relentless schedule of touring across the UK & Europe, bringing their brand of psychedelic art-rock to all corners and haunts, where audiences experienced firsthand their palpable joy.

2023 saw the release of Thank You for Your Time alongside a huge 18 date UK & European tour, alongside a host of festival appearances. They also expanded their sound in the cracks of their city, crafting their unique combination of a powerful groove-laden rhythm section, jangly guitars, theremin-esque synths & booming organs, all held together with the ethereal, honeyed vocals of Chamberlain. Krauty & latin-esque grooves found their way to bigger stages and powerful psych-pop garage floor fillers saw them filling rooms, creating chaos & hypnotic states in equal measure.

All this eventually culminated in 2024 when they embarked to the remote Welsh countryside to record their debut album, fuelled by honeysuckle champagne in a befitting heatwave. Sat atop sheepskins they sweated through the days with valves glowing and tapes scratching. Chaos Era is Midnight Rodeo’s tale up until now, exhuming their chaotic alter egos, uprooting lives to birth something completely afresh, all the while consolidating their enthralling bond.

“Chaos Era” is set for release July 2025 on FatCat Records (Sigur Rós, Animal Collective, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks), having been mixed by Grammy award winning mixing engineer Claudius Mittendorfer (Sorry, Temples, Parquet Courts) and mastered by John Webber (David Bowie, Ash, Coach Party, Junodream). The album will be accompanied by a UK & European tour in September & October 2025.

This album contains no booklet.