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Via Post-Punk.com
“New York City electronic act MIDNIGHTCHOIR is on the prowl in the streets of Gotham at night, and woo boy…someone has had it with contemporary political discourse and lip-service liberalism. On the fiery new single “Molotov,” frontman Patrick Bobilin’s brusque baritone cuts directly to the point by asking, exhaustedly, “What if we threw a white-hot molotov into the precinct?”
[…] The self-directed video shows Bobilin wandering through his beloved city, which needs so much change for progress to happen, crooning Molotov with a stunning gravitas. Through this raucous anthem, we can grasp at a glimmer of hope that change is a possibility.”
Via chorus.fm
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With the rest of this LP in mind, what can listeners expect and how does this single, as well as the LP’s recently released single, serve as an introduction?
I lean heavily on my sources: the 80’s New Romantics, early Goth, and Industrial/EBM artists of that era. My one issue is that bands like Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode only imply their politics. I don’t want Proud Boys trying to claim my music. I want to play a show and know that no one is going to be shocked that songs like “Rising Tide” are about the political violence being done to our trans and queer family. Songs like “Molotov” have already told them that. But I also want people to dance, have sex, and fall in love, which is why I created singles like “Love Crimes”. In the spirit of Emma Goldman, a song I’ve recorded for the next album states “You can keep your revolution if we can’t dance to it, because we’re not going out on our knees. We’re going out on our feet.”
Via Stereo Embers
“Mixing elements throughout the record of urban dub, the thump and momentum of a baritone-based electro, an underground throb that feels born in the flurry and fug of the subway in July among much else, all of it restlessly alive with the fraught ambience of our time, Bobilin in his MC guise somehow manages to present as the summation of both take-no-prisoners and vulnerable AF, a tenuous, tenebrous hybrid of emotion that one can’t help but relate to these days unless one is dead.
It is that gritty, that imposing, that aware of its own mortality in this uniquely anxious time.
At the risk of overstating even though it feels obvious, MIDNIGHTCHOIR, and this album, is precisely what we need to hear right now, next week, for the foreseeable future.”