The Midnight Sun, by C Duncan

The Midnight Sun

by C Duncan

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Rich Hims The relaxed innovation of Architecture seems to have been replaced by an edgier desire to push the boundaries, but the album is nonetheless compelling. Favorite track: Jupiter.

ryan Sensitive secular boys like me need lush choral records like this. Favorite track: Nothing More.

The shining example Beautifully ambient compositions of a divine quality worthy of the finest cathedral's and concert halls , a fantastic album from C Duncan . Favorite track: Do I Hear.

Haagentis Your music is perfect sex while being high, but to the ears, period.

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1.	Nothing More 03:54	buy track
2.	Like You Do 04:40	buy track
3.	Other Side 03:15	buy track
4.	Wanted To Want It Too 03:57	buy track
5.	Who Lost 03:35	buy track
6.	On Course 03:37	buy track
7.	Last To Leave 03:29	buy track
8.	Do I Hear 04:04	buy track
9.	The Midnight Sun 04:16	buy track
10.	Jupiter 04:20	buy track
11.	Window 03:46	buy track

about

Glasgow’s prodigious talent C Duncan released his critically acclaimed and Mercury Prize nominated debut album Architect earlier this year (last summer in the UK.) Now, his follow-up The Midnight Sun sees the bedroom producer return with a more expansive and experimental second offering, blending electronic elements and sweeping synth sounds with his signature layered vocals and dreamy instrumentation.

The album borrows its name from a Twilight Zone episode aired in 1961, in which the Earth’s orbit has been perturbed, causing it to fall slowly towards the sun. “’The Midnight Sun’ is one of my favorite episodes,” Duncan muses, “it embodies the style of Twilight Zone perfectly, which is often claustrophobic, mysterious and unnerving. Like Architect, The Midnight Sun was recorded and produced entirely by C Duncan in his Glasgow flat, using his bedroom studio set-up and gradually adding each layer and each instrument one at a time. Though time-consuming, the process allowed him to lovingly assemble an intricate and subtle collection of songs that pick up where Duncan began with Architect and move toward a cleaner and more precise vision of the Scottish songwriter’s vision. Duncan has heralded the new album as his “most coherent and concise work, sonically.”

The album’s artwork, a painting of a dimly lit staircase, is also a piece by C Duncan, who also happens to be a skilled painter. “This being another album made from home, I wanted the artwork to parallel that.” elaborates the artist. “The paintings I have done for it are of interiors - the stairwell outside my flat to be precise. I spend a lot of time out there thinking about music, and I wanted there to be a very personal element to the artwork.”

The Midnight Sun is decidedly personal, a testament to why he’s been so lavished with praise in his home country and now, on the precipice of this new release, its clear that Duncan will charm the rest of the world as well.