The Sea At Midnight returns today with a new single, “Burning,” a fiery, impassioned anthem against the devastating realities of climate change. “Burning” is a sweaty cocktail with Marco Cattani Chemical Waves that blends raw emotions with electric soundscapes to harness a message that’s getting hard to miss.
“Burning” envelops you in cloistered intensity. Atmospheric synths swell, urgent guitar lines pierce the darkness, and a galloping beat pushes “Burning” onward like a runaway train. Vince Grant’s baritone vocals holler with anguish and resolve in equal measure as they tell of a world in pain but still somehow persevering.
Cattani’s production touch is irresistible, mixing strands of post-punk and darkwave with a cinematic richness. The tension between beauty and destruction echoes the track’s subject, a world on the brink, a fire that burns literally and figuratively. The effect is a track that doesn’t merely request attention. It insists on it.
“Burning” is a wake-up call, an impassioned plea for consciousness, and a sonic representation of the turmoil. Hauntingly powerful in its delivery, The Sea At Midnight has once again shown that music is a sound that can be a movement.