WL//WH Premiere: Do DATE AT MIDNIGHT Find the Courage For a “Rendez-Vous”?

WL//WH Premiere     DATE AT MIDNIGHT

Fresh from a third studio album, the seventh release overall, “Fading Into This Grace”, via Manic Depression Records, which, mastered, notably, by renowned musician and producer William Faith, consolidates, refines and sublimates the band’s ’80s-inspired, modern Gothic-clad Post Punk sound with further intriguing nuances, Date at Midnight, the Italian four piece from Rome founded in 2007, made up of Daniele De Angelis (vox), Pasquale Vico (bass), Nunzio Biviano (guitars) and Francesco Mignogna (drums), delivers the music video, directed and created by Laurivisual, for the opening track and live favourite “Rendez-Vous”, WL//WH is very pleased to premiere.

A mysterious “Rendez-Vous” hangs in the balance while a person remains afraid to say goodbye, sparks off an encompassing resonant layering of racing punchy drum beats, sinuous, overtly thrumming bass lines, and droning shivering ringing guitar swarms, to hover over and haunt wistful angsty vocals and super baritone backups, with a relentless swirling immersion of alarming and heady sensations, drifting into a bold release of tension, with, finally, the spoken word “goodbye.”

Shot on location in the evocative ancient city of Rome by Laurivisual, the visuals shuffle intimate performance clips of Date at Midnight with a dramatic Italian romance. The beautiful Alessandra Piscopo walks through a maze of black and white streets, searching for a masked man who waits, in anticipation, with a single red rose. Along the journey, you will see some uplifting scrabble messages posted as well as some epic Roman river banks and architectures. The story might not end as you would expect, but it is definitely symbolic, as ashes from the once hopeful rose fall down like rain upon our heroine’s see-through umbrella, bringing forth the idea of death and rebirth.

Date at Midnight will bring their fiery live shows around Europe. Here are the first confirmed 2024/25 gigs, more TBA soon:
Sept 21st, RetronouveauMessina (IT)
Dec 6th, BLAH BLAHTorino (IT)
Mar 14th, TBA – Tolouse (FR)
Mar 15th, Altherax Music Nice (FR)
Info & Booking: [email protected]

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