Nightly’s “1989,” originally released on October 31, 2025 as part of their album ‘The Void’, has been reissued as a featured collaboration with Fly by Midnight, and the pairing feels less like a creative decision and more like an inevitability. Both acts operate in the same dreamy, late-night indie pop space, Nightly with their atmospheric, moody production and Fly by Midnight with a cleaner, melody-driven approach, and the new version lets those instincts complement each other without either voice crowding the other out.
The soft synth layers, quiet percussion, and subtle vocal interplay that defined the original are still intact, but the addition of a second emotional presence deepens the song’s core themes of memory, nostalgia, and looking back at something that still feels close. The original version on ‘The Void’ stands on its own, and this featured version adds a new emotional angle without taking anything away from it.
Both acts have been building toward exactly this kind of collaboration. Nightly established their signature sound through tracks like “The Movies” and “Twenty Something,” while Fly by Midnight carved their place in alt-pop with “Different Lives,” “In The Night,” and “No Choice.” The featured version of “1989” is out now.