Midnight Lion - Sleeping In The Woods

‘Sleeping In The Woods’, the title track from Glaswegian duo Midnight Lion’s latest EP, is a darkly seductive electro beast aligning Stewart Brock’s soaring, pitch perfect vocals to an insistent, almost-Teutonic throb. This is unashamedly pop – vaguely emotive lyrics, a chantalong chorus, impeccable production, shimmering electronics. It’s also unashamedly wonderful; indeed, the entire track hovers in a scintillating equipoise between pensive, moody electronica and sheer euphoria, a live crowd pleaer in the making.

Midnight Lion follow in the lineage of stately Scottish pop music, through the likes of The Associates and pre-pomp Simple Minds, projecting a stadium sound even at this early stage in the career. But their ambition is not to be sneered at. On the evidence of this EP, the duo have enough nous to remain aware of their musical forbearers without resorting to mere mimicry. Amidst the overuse of ‘epic’, Midnight Lion could very well rise above the deluge, their eyes fixed on the glittering prize.