Permanent midnight

Permanent midnight
Left Boy studio album
Publication (s)	February 14, 2014
admission	2013/14
Label (s)	Warner Music
Format (s)	CD, download
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	14th
occupation	Rap: Left Boy
production	Nexxus
chronology - Permanent midnight Ferdinand (2018)

Left Boy (2013)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Permanent midnight   AT 3 02/28/2014 (16 weeks)   DE 16 02/28/2014 (1 week)   CH 38 02/23/2014 (1 week)

Singles

Black dress   AT 44 02/08/2013 (1 week) Get it right   AT 21st 13.09.2013 (6 weeks) Security check   AT 27 01/24/2014 (10 weeks) Left Boy's Coming   AT 73 01/24/2014 (1 week)

Permanent Midnight is the debut album by the Austrian rapper Left Boy . It was released on February 14, 2014 on the major label Warner Music .

background

The album was originally due to be released in late 2013. The record had to be postponed to February 14, 2014 due to the “delayed submission to the record company” according to his own statement . The tour has also been postponed to the next year. On December 20, 2013, the tracklist and cover were released.

Commenting on the posting on Facebook, Left Boy said:

"I've worked on it for four years, it's 13 songs + a moment, and it will (finally) come out on Valentine's Day (February 14th) 2014."

- Left Boy : rap.de

The only producer on the album was Nexxus .

marketing

The singles Black Dress , Get It Right , Security Check and Left Boy's Coming were released in advance as music videos on YouTube . The album reached number three in the Austrian charts.

Track list

#	title	length
1	Permanent midnight	3:17
2	Time and again	3:06
3	Black dress	2:38
4th	Through	3:34
5	Marie	2:52
6th	Stoned	3:07
7th	star	2:34
8th	Everything flows	3:27
9	10 AM	3:25
10	moment	0:10
11	That's how much	3:22
12	Get it right	3:23
13	Security check	3:17
14th	Left Boy's Coming - Radio Version	3:33

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Plattentests.de
pressplay.at

The album received mostly mixed reviews.

Kim Lange from the e-zine Laut.de judges positively: In his debut album Left Boy shows "his reflective side" . In the past he had "tried too often on slow, emotional songs" . The dance floor character of the songs shows that “he rightly fills the halls and knows how to inspire with his concerts” . She sums up that Permanent Midnight " illustrates his talent as a producer, lyricist and composer" and that "the associated videos show a lot of humor and creativity" .

Konrad Spremberg from the review portal Plattentests.de does not share this assessment and tends to judge it negatively: It is "brave to combine everything that people have freaked out at in recent years" . Nevertheless, he got the impression that Left Boy celebrated himself “too intensely” and lost “all sense of dramaturgy in the party frenzy” .

Nina Tatschl from the Austrian music blog pressplay.at rated the album similarly. Some songs are by all means “innovative and versatile” , but he draws a “rather questionable and ridiculous moral picture of today's youth” . In the end, the record leaves an impression that is too “childish and swanky” .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Austria - Germany - Switzerland
2. ↑ Left Boy - Permanent Midnight. Discogs , accessed February 23, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Left Boy: album in February and tour in March. rap.de, December 13, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Left Boy: Cover and tracklist of "Permanent Midnight". rap.de, December 20, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Kim Lange: From the diary of an all-rounder. Laut.de , accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Konrad Spremberg: Left Boy - Permanent midnight. Plattentests.de , 1, accessed on February 23, 2017 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Nina Tatschl: Left Boy - Permanent Midnight. pressplay.at, March 3, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2017 .