Luminol
by Midwife
krismolina_
krismolina_
Angelic ballads floating on earthshattering walls of noise. visceral live experience.
Favorite track: Enemy.
Angelic ballads floating on earthshattering walls of noise. visceral live experience.
Favorite track: Enemy.
st_matthew
st_matthew
The Offspring is a great band. But here it's stripped it down into pure emotions. This song absolutely moved me.
hvnmtl Favorite track: 2020.
hvnmtl Favorite track: 2020.
kosher-doritos
kosher-doritos
i can’t kill the evil thought, i can’t turn it off
Favorite track: 2020.
deaditeash
imaginaryoctopus
Arhkhann
themanicexec
koiheart
Sylvain Paoletti
Cody Ariel Shaffer
lotusqween
Jude York
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recspec
V
Greg van Brug
banannaknight
magdariusz
columnaris46
liralen
JDMP
unibrow6
Olivia Bradley-Skill
pgro
ivogg92
Tedd Anderson
Whirligig
AMORALEE
Lee Lee Blunt
jibberjabber
ted
Tim Lahan
Richard Kingston
Travis E
whenthesunhits7
Gaz
Paul Riedl
524bells
midnight-vanburen
John Fenn
abeyoungblood
Roots
massenuntauglich
disf0rtune
DustyHeatsink
Daniel
Ben Ponder
Bub
fiucci
Nothing.
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Matt Cohen
Dillon Pfau
Steve Pordon
datalaughing
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ringhof
well,
BRACZsound
Dominic
clememtime
Skullslayer
IWanttoFall
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Cassette + Digital AlbumThe second edition comes housed in blue glitter shells. The third comes in red glitter shells.
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Midwife "Face" Shirt
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1. |
God is a Cop
05:07
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I can't kill the evil thought
I can’t turn it off
Am I heartless, or am I soft?
I can't kill the evil thought
I can't kill the evil thought
I can't shut it up
Am I me, is that enough?
I can't kill the evil thought
I can't kill the evil thought
I can't turn it off
Am I the villain, am I the cop?
I can't kill the evil thought
It’s been way too long
It’s been way too long
It’s been way too long
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Enemy
07:03
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My body is against me
My body wants to kill me
My body is an army
My body's out to get me
My body is against me (you know, you know)
My body wants to kill me (it’s freaking me out)
My body is an army (you know, you know)
My body’s out to get me (it’s freaking me out)
My body is the police
My body has to have me
My body is enemy
My body has to have me
My body is the police (you know, you know)
My body has to have me (it’s freaking me out)
My body is enemy (you know, you know)
My body has to have me (it’s freaking me out)
My body is against me
My body wants to kill me
My body is an army
My body’s out to get me
My body is against me (you know, you know)
My body wants to kill me (it’s freaking me out)
My body is an army (you know, you know)
My body’s out to get me (it’s freaking me out)
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2020
04:14
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And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven is so far away
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven is so far away
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven is so far away
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Colorado
06:49
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How much more death can one person take?
No, I’m not ok
All my friends are in New York
All my friends are in LA
All my friends are in Chicago
All my friends in Santa Fe
All my friends in Colorado
All my friends are here to stay
How much more death can one person take?
No, I’m not ok
All my friends are in New York
All my friends are in LA
All my friends are in Chicago
All my friends in Santa Fe
All my friends in Colorado
All my friends are here to stay
How much more death can one person take?
No, I’m not ok
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Promise Ring
05:24
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Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
You’re the secret that I bleed
I’m the promise that you keep
You know I was born to run
But I’ll still be here when you’re done
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
You're the secret I can’t speak
I’m your bride, you’re my bad dream
You know I was born to run
But I’m the angel with a gun
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
You’re the secret that I bleed
I’m the promise you can’t keep
You know I was born to run
I want it all but I have none
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
Love will break your heart forever
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Christina's World
04:20
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Thought I was in an Andrew Wyeth
Crawling up the hill, towards the house
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
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about
Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis.
When 2020 began, Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and back to her internal landscape. Midwife’s third full length record, Luminol, was written and produced during quarantine.
Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. When it reacts with blood, luminol emits a chemiluminescent blue glow that can be seen in a darkened room. In the same way this chemical reveals evidence at a scene, Midwife is interested in profound truth - turning trial and tribulation into sources of light.
Luminol navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, self harm, confinement, agency, and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent Rothko color-field of blue.
The Luminol album cover shows a dark figure standing at the edge of a body of water. It symbolizes the way humanity had been on a precipice throughout 2020, to later find out they had been there all along. Being one of Midwife’s most personal records, Luminol's cover artwork is a picture of Madeline Johnston's mother taken in the 1980’s, when she was the same age as Madeline at the time of recording. By redacting the figure, Johnston hopes that anyone could see themselves there, by the water, as a form leftover when all the elements of their lives are stripped away and what is left is a host.
When 2020 began, Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and back to her internal landscape. Midwife’s third full length record, Luminol, was written and produced during quarantine.
Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. When it reacts with blood, luminol emits a chemiluminescent blue glow that can be seen in a darkened room. In the same way this chemical reveals evidence at a scene, Midwife is interested in profound truth - turning trial and tribulation into sources of light.
Luminol navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, self harm, confinement, agency, and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent Rothko color-field of blue.
The Luminol album cover shows a dark figure standing at the edge of a body of water. It symbolizes the way humanity had been on a precipice throughout 2020, to later find out they had been there all along. Being one of Midwife’s most personal records, Luminol's cover artwork is a picture of Madeline Johnston's mother taken in the 1980’s, when she was the same age as Madeline at the time of recording. By redacting the figure, Johnston hopes that anyone could see themselves there, by the water, as a form leftover when all the elements of their lives are stripped away and what is left is a host.
credits
released July 16, 2021
Luminol features collaborations from Tucker Theodore, Angel Diaz (Vyva Melinkolya), Zachary Cole Smith, Ben Newman, and Colin Caulfield (DIIV), and Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life).
The album was written, recorded, and produced by Madeline Johnston in Colorado and New Mexico.
Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering.
Luminol features collaborations from Tucker Theodore, Angel Diaz (Vyva Melinkolya), Zachary Cole Smith, Ben Newman, and Colin Caulfield (DIIV), and Dan Barrett (Have A Nice Life).
The album was written, recorded, and produced by Madeline Johnston in Colorado and New Mexico.
Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering.
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US Booking
madeline.e.johnston@gmail.com
EU + UK Booking
giorgio@swampbooking.com wade@swampbooking.com
Press
stephaniemarlow@gmail.com
shows
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Jun 15Austin, TX
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Jun 20San Francisco, CA
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Jun 21Los Angeles (LA), CA
discography
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May 2023 -
Feb 2023 -
Feb 2023 -
Dec 2022