Midnight of the Century

Midnight of the Century
Midnight of the Century
Studio album by Blacklist
Released May 26th, 2009
Recorded Mavericks, New York
Genre Post-punk revival
Length 46:53
Label Wierd Records
Producer Blacklist
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Midnight of the Century is the debut album of Brooklyn band Blacklist. It was released in 2009 on independent record label Wierd Records. The title is a reference to a book by Victor Serge.

Themes and References

The song "Shock in the Hotel Falcon" is inspired by George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. "Language of the Living Dead" references the work of Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.. The album's liner notes open with the phrase Fiat justitia ruat caelum and contain quotes from Jacques Lacan, Don Delillo, Rumi, and Salman Rushdie.

In terms of how this functions with the music, Josh Strawn, the singer and lyricist for Blacklist has said:

...if you want to read my lyrics for the subtexts and hear us as a political band, you can certainly do that and you can practically get a reading list from our songs (Ibn Rushd, Omar Khayyam, George Orwell, Victor Serge, Arjun Appadurai, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Salman Rushdie, Slavoj Žižek, just to give you the short list). But if you just like the music, that works too. You don't have to know who Akbar Ganji and Zakia Zaki are to appreciate 'When Worlds Collide' by us [...] it is form or melody that succeeds first--if the more thought out ideas and agendas work too, they are only able to do so because the rest is already in place and one's appreciation of one shouldn't condition too much your ability to appreciate the other.[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Blacklist.

  1. "Still Changes" – 3:59
  2. "Flight of the Demoiselles" – 4:19
  3. "Shock in the Hotel Falcon" – 4:44
  4. "Language of the Living Dead" – 4:33
  5. "Odessa" – 4:39
  6. "Julie Speaks" – 4:32
  7. "Poison for Tomorrow" – 3:23
  8. "Frontiers" – 4:11
  9. "The Cunning of History" – 3:03
  10. "When Worlds Collide" – 4:34
  11. "The Believer" – 4:56



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