Born At Midnite Interview: Montreal Duo Discuss Debut Full-Length Album ‘Eternal BAM Nation’

June 25, 2026 Ben Pagani

Amery Sandford and David Carriere are Born At Midnite, baby, and it’s not everyday that you meet somebody that was. The pop duo will release their first ever full-length album Eternal BAM Nation on Friday, June 26, years after the two began sporadically sharing catchy viral singles that have captivated the internet from time to time. The two are no strangers to making compelling art. Carriere plays in and produces music for the popular indie bands TOPS and Marci. Sandford is an accomplished visual artist and solo musician who has toured North America and Europe. As a pair, they are a match made wherever the “eternally bammed” reside. That sounds like a pretty awesome place.

It’s been about six years since Born At Midnite began releasing music. When the opportunity to collaborate would arise, Sandford and Carriere would write and produce a quick catchy single, drop it on the internet, go back to their various individual artistic endeavors and repeat. What the two probably didn’t expect to happen was that listeners would always want more of these songs. See, Born At Midnite tracks are a lot of things: cute, earwormy, relatable, self-empowering, lustful, and a bit hyperbolic. For example, the lyrics to “Pop Charts” are about a singer who has found themselves to be recently single. “I’m on top of the pop charts with a broken heart,” Sandford sings. Talk about self-empowering, Born At Midnite are always first in line to toot their own horns. These are the exact kinds of lyrics fans who want to wink at themselves when they sing these songs in the mirror want to be belting out. Born At Midnite have previously and affectionately dubbed their music to belong in a made-up genre “post-party.” If you got dumped at the function, this is the pop group for you.

Born At Midnite’s previous 11 singles have been shared on the wittily-named compilation “Every Single Time.” Now on Eternal BAM Nation, the duo will share 11 more new tracks, some of which have already been released in the build up to the new release. View a full tracklist and see all Born At Midnite tour dates below.

From Carriere’s studio in Montreal, where the duo originates from, him and Sandford sit down in front of their computer, little cats running around in the background. They share insight on what they’re doing right now, and how this anticipated album of theirs has come to be. Buy a copy of Eternal BAM Nation here.

‘Eternal BAM Nation’ Cover Art | Amery Sandford

Q&A – Born At Midnite Discuss New Album Eternal BAM Nation

Beyond The Stage: It looks like you two are at work in the studio. What are you preparing for?

Born At Midnite (David): Amery is working on a record right now and I’m about to head off to tour with TOPS, heading towards the West Coast and then Mexico.

Born At Midnite (Amery): I put out an EP under the name Alpenglow during the pandemic. It was just me and David kind of “Born At Midnite style in the studio, messing around with samplers and really fun MIDI keyboard stuff. I feel like the new stuff is kind of like that, but with country ideas, which sounds kind of wild, and we’ve just been having so much fun making new stuff and mixing different genres. Reggae, country, I don’t know. Get excited, everybody!

BTS: It seems this first full-length BAM record came together pretty quickly. Is that because you both are so busy with other ventures?

BAM (David) Well, I’d say the pragmatic answer is that all the songs that we made before and released also, we did very quickly. But this time we had a set amount of time, like a few months, where we could actually make something that was a bunch of songs. But they just happened by nature pretty quickly. Yeah, we’re fast. We’ll finish, we usually can write something in a night or like a couple hours, which is cool. If we have an idea, then boom: it’s a song. Some songs get left in the dust. It’s not that the music is insincere either, but it’s like, just kind of rolling with the bit.

BAM (Amery): Yeah, the second a joke enters the conversation, it’s over. And also, I will say that we wrote a bunch of the songs last year at Christmas. All the really, really hyper ones, it was just us going in the studio. We must have been in a good mood, those were written in our Christmas era.

BTS: You have explored some new vocal effects on “Smash” and other singles from this record. It’s this slowed down “maybe I took something” vibe. How’d that come to be?

BAM (David): We spent time working on an old school tape recording machine. And you can change the speed as you’re going. And when you slow it down, everything gets lower. If you worked on a computer, you’d have a million ways to get creative. But this process only has one physical knob, and we decided, “let’s change the knob.”

BAM (Amery): We’re so smart.

BAM (David): I’m always looking for a surprise, or something that changes a song in a way that I wasn’t expecting. It’s a little more organic, too.

BTS: Why is now the right time to release a full-length album?

BAM (David): We put together a singles compilation and now we’re saying that it’s pretty funny to put out a “best of” before you even have a record. So then we’re like, “well, we might as well make a record.”

BAM (Amery): There’s kind of always been this element of mystery with our music. I do all of the illustration for us and I feel like it’s really like come together in this strong vibe that I’ve kind of accidentally developed. I also thought that would be really cool to explore with a full album.

BTS: You have this illustrated persona that has a resemblance to each of you, it’s seen in your cover art and music videos. But you also have a big persona in your latest photoshoots. Is that the vibe you’ve accidentally made?

BAM (Amery): David’s like, “oh gosh, secrets out.” In a world where you need to develop a persona in your music, it’s actually really fun. We’re not the kind of people who are always saying “look at me!” We talk about bands like Gorillaz and Prozzäk, bands that like to develop this world that has nothing to do with their body. What did Damon Albarn say? “When we die, somebody else will be the Gorillaz, we’ll give our band over. Yeah, I’m working on the Born At Midnite holograms right now.

BTS: You have relatable lyrics, but you’re also really good at making things feel over the top. How does that come to be?

BAM (Amery): Dave is pretty clever. So I think when we write lyrics, Sometimes we try and write things from a person’s perspective that would actually say whatever message we are making seriously. On “Hearts Working Overtime,” there’s continuous aspiration. Yet the person is like so happy or so sad and depressed. No matter what they do, no matter how many private jets they take to a crazy vacation, they’re just like, “nothing makes me feel good.” That’s the reality that we live in, which is really depressing. Can’t life be fun?

Born at Midnite 2026 Tour Dates:

08/13 Montreal, QC – Foufounes Électriques

08/14 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s

08/15 New York, NY – Elsewhere Zone One

08/19 Chicago, IL – Schubas

08/21 Los Angeles, CA – El Cid

08/22 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar

08/23 San Francisco, CA – Brick & Mortar Music Hall

08/25 Portland, OR – Swan Dive

08/26 Seattle, WA – Barboza

08/27 Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret

08/29 Miami, FL – Zey Zey – Tima Disco

09/03 Toronto, ON – The Drake Underground

Eternal BAM Nation Tracklist:

12 Bells & A Baby Crying

Ur Cool Knife

I Haven’t Forgotten You

Wash You Out

My Spell

… Rock On … (ft. Royal Tusk, April Lawine)

Smash

Pt. III (ft. Fireball Kid)

At Midnite

Underground Shopping District

Ben Pagani

Music Projects Manager at Beyond The Stage Magazine

Ben is a music journalist living and working in Chicago. They joined Beyond The Stage as an intern and have stayed on the staff for several years. Now serving on the editorial board, Ben is proud to be BTS' Music Projects Manager, coordinating coverage between international record labels and our staff. Ben has interviewed, photographed and written about bands from across the world. Ben has lived all over the United States working in television and media. They are an Emmy Award-winning writer. Ben can be found spinning records as 'DJ Wearing Sunglasses' in clubs and basements across the US.