Special Interest and Mykki Blanco Shine a Light on Those Processing Grief in the Club on “Midnight Legend”

The New Orleans punks’ third album Endure is out November 4 via Rough Trade.

Special Interest and Mykki Blanco Shine a Light on Those Processing Grief in the Club on “Midnight Legend”

The New Orleans punks’ third album Endure is out November 4 via Rough Trade.

Words: Margaret Farrell

Photo: Alexis Gross

August 31, 2022

New Orleans punk group Special Interest have announced the follow-up to their 2020 breakthrough album The Passion Of. The forthcoming full-length is titled Endure and its first single is called "Midnight Legend" with a feature from Mykki Blanco and a video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. Their third album—which was self-produced and recorded at HighTower in New Orleans, engineered by James Whitten, mixed by Collin Dupuis, and mastered by Matt Colton in London at Metropolis—is out November 4 via Rough Trade.

Logout described the new single as “a love song to all the girls leaving the club at 6 a.m., a love song to everybody who doesn’t have love around them. The ways we numb ourselves or participate in high-risk behavior because we all feel so isolated and alone is also very much enabled by clubs, institutions, and party 'friends.' This song is about listening to people who never actually get heard.”

Logout added about the video: “I see the three legends portrayed in the video as a whole person, but all represent different processes of grief. You have the fucked-up outta their mind one, the slut phase one numbing themselves with bodies, and the moment when you are open to the world again and love can be let back in. They come together towards the end of the video, symbolizing coming back to yourself.”

Watch "Midnight Legend" below.