Midnight Rodeo - Chaos Era

Format: LP 
Catalogue No.: FATLP181
Barcode: 0600116518118
Release Date: 11 Jul 2025
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Nottingham-based Midnight Rodeo are a collective of five close friends who met on the city’s live circuit. Signing with FatCat Records in 2022, they’ve released four singles to date, and now have their debut album, ‘Chaos Era’, ready to go.
 Extensive, relentless touring (sold-out hometown shows, The Great Escape, Dot To Dot and Kendall Calling) created a tight-knit family and their pleasure in playing as an ensemble is instantly evident on the album. When asked about this, they 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, with 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 other’s company. Its punchy production is most definitely meant to be played loud.

Tracklisting
Dixon
Cleanshirt
Growl
Daisy
Captain’s Table
I Can Say Anything
El Medina
Strange Eyes
Vulture Vulture
Buggin Out
Nothing To You