Midnight Sister have announced their return via new single ‘Wednesday Baby’, out now via Jagjaguwar. The track is the LA pair’s first new music since the release of their 2017 debut album Saturn Over Sunset.
Watch the Eric Bernsen directed video for ‘Wednesday Baby’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25rOlKyYzc
‘Wednesday Baby’ – named after Giraffe’s rescue dog Wednesday – is a patient, baroque pop gem that is both familiar and aloof, both charming and gloomy. It’s about one of those days spent in tunnel vision doldrums from which only your canine companion can pull you out.
By the time arranger Balouzian’s almost-Hawaiian chorus of saw and voices come chiming in the song’s 3rd part, we’re hypnotized by it’s endearing ennui. ‘Wednesday Baby’ is very much Midnight Sister reemerging from the lab at the top of their strange game.
As Midnight Sister, multi-disciplinary LA artists Juliana Giraffe and Ari Balouzian make motion pictures. Yes sometimes with moving images – but most often only with the music they create together. Balouzian’s serpentine, string compositions are movie scenes that allow Giraffe, a brilliant character actor, to cloak herself in new roles and voices. A bit of Jon Brion’s score work; some old Hollywood strings and a solid dose of glam and disco from 70s independent cinema.
Giraffe and Balouzian’s respective work in fashion, visual art, video and film scoring – along with the gang of virtuosos with which they surround themselves – all wonderfully coalesce as Midnight Sister. And if 2017’s Saturn Over Sunset was their collection of short films about outcast life in The San Fernando Valley. In this next phase, they’re ready to be cemented as auteurs.
