[Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Darkwave] HALFSLEEPER - "Midnight Blue"
Artist/Band: HALFSLEEPER
Release Title: Midnight Blue
Release Date: 19 September 2025
Label: Wave Records
Format: Digital, LP
Genre: Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Darkwave
Country: Brazil
HALFSLEEPER, from São Paulo, Brazil, have released their debut album “Midnight Blue”, out since 19 September 2025 via Wave Records. The record gathers eight new originals plus four bonus cuts and introduces a post-punk/darkwave sound coloured by shoegaze guitars, synths and drum machines.
Formed in 2021, HALFSLEEPER is the duo of HERMIT (Matheus Cornely) and MOON (Vinicius Biz). The project was created to bring together pieces of their shared musical background — industrial textures, darkwave pulse, shoegaze haze and synthpop hooks — while keeping post-punk’s backbone front and centre: programmed drums, pulsing bass, layered synths and modulation-heavy guitars. “Midnight Blue” follows the EP The Hook that Killed the Ocean (2022) and the singles Remembrance Day (2024), There Goes a Shadow and Tortured Souls (2025), and arrives as their most complete statement to date.
Lyrically, the album doesn’t romanticise relationships, it dissects them. Across twelve tracks the band circle themes of isolation, guilt, love, eroticism, dependence and self-destruction, shifting the tempo from slow-burn melancholy to nervous rush. The result feels lived-in and human: songs that carry mood and melody without losing edge. For media context, touchpoints referenced by the band include Drab Majesty, Choir Boy and classic 4AD aesthetics.
Tracklist — Midnight Blue
- Midnight Blue
- Remembrance Day (feat. Helders Oliveira from Jenni Sex)
- Bread Of Faith
- There Goes a Shadow
- Bleach And Gasoline
- Cast Away
- Tortured Souls
- Magnolia
- There Goes a Shadow (Son Doong Remix)
- Remembrance Day (Lone Wanderer Remix)
- Bread Of Faith (Son Doong Remix)
- Bleach And Gasoline (Alternative Mix)
Line-up
HERMIT (Matheus Cornely) – vocals, guitar
MOON (Vinicius Biz) – bass, backing vocals
For Fans Of
Drab Majesty, Choir Boy, classic 4AD bands.
Links:
https://waverecords.bandcamp.com/album/w186-halfsleeper-midnight-blue
https://www.instagram.com/therealhalfsleeper/
https://www.facebook.com/therealhalfsleeper
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