Born At Midnite, Paycheque

Born At Midnite are not your garden variety drag and drop producers, they are a vertically integrated song machine. Employing samplers, fake drums, tape machine, and in-house art, all at a work-from-home pace; for the last half decade the Montreal duo have been casually careening towards ‘coolest band around’ status. Playing into – whilst poking fun at – our era’s omnipresent narcissism and self indulgence the group stitch together an unsponsored sort of ‘product-placement-punk’. The band officially formed circa 2020 when, after jamming for fun, they recorded their first song and namesake ‘Born At Midnite’. Instead of overworked sob stories for short term gains, BAM prefers the ‘pose and get chose’ method. Since 2020 they have been drip feeding songs to an ever growing following of discerning teenagers and in-the-know retail employees, which in the fall of 2025 culminated in their first singles compilation “Every Single Time”.

Paycheque is the synth-pop duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh. Their self-titled debut album, coming in June of 2026, documents life at the margins of post-pandemic Los Angeles: limited resources, long nights, and a sense of romantic longing propelling them forward. Written and recorded together at home using hardware synthesizers, the record draws from the hook-heavy elegance of OMD and New Musik, with an eye toward timeless classic songcraft filtered through sonic experimentation. Boy-girl vocals trade perspective over drum machines, cinematic synths and guitars indebted to UK jangle and new wave.

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