Midnight Rendez-vous

“…run, fighting to the end, just what will we learn?”

1984 welcomes this Bernette Records-released strand of mystification to slather just a little bit more stickiness onto Tokyo Blade’s Midnight Rendezvous web that some of their existing fans were no doubt hung up on.

This endorses the mild collision of two past singles; the title cut’s stylishly-driven truck and the heavier pedal of “If Heaven is Hell” that tried to pass it on the right. As on ‘83’s 2nd Cut single, the b-side is meant to lift the a-side’s mainstream loftiness higher above ground; while it’s not the true powerlifter “Mean Streak” is, long-limbed “If Heaven is Hell” successfully does so to the best of its creatively-muscular ability. Not much else goin’ on here, or so the police report says anyway.

It wasn’t uncommon (probably still isn’t) for small indie labels that somehow acquired modest publishing rights to name things their way despite existing history and is a promising conclusion as to why we’re blessed with yet another T-blade artifact titled Midnight Rendezvous, even if it is a mere single.