This Night

by Destroyer

This Night cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 October 2002
  • Label: Merge
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:08:07
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Embracing chaotic, live-in-the-room performances, Dan Bejar notably abandoned the meticulous studio perfectionism of previous efforts. The resulting sprawl is a gloriously messy, David Bowie-indebted art-rock cabaret, characterized by sprawling lyricism and ragged, extended vocal takes.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, desert, theatrical, melodic, literate

Tracklist

  1. This Night (5:57)
  2. Holly Going Lightly (5:08)
  3. Here Comes the Night (6:35)
  4. The Chosen Few (3:59)
  5. Makin' Angels (4:14)
  6. Hey, Snow White (7:54)
  7. Modern Painters (3:00)
  8. Crystal Country (3:44)
  9. Trembling Peacock (4:15)
  10. I Have Seen a Light (5:06)
  11. Students Carve Hearts Out of Coal (3:46)
  12. Goddess of Drought (3:31)
  13. Self Portrait With Thing (Tonight Is Not Your Night) (6:26)
  14. The Relevant Ballads (0:37)
  15. The Night Moves (3:48)

Credits

  • Chris Frey - bass guitar, vocals, melodica, e-bow
  • Scott Morgan - classical guitar, percussion [mad], handclaps [claps]
  • Fisher Rose - drums, vocals, vibraphone [vibes], percussion, violin, synthesizer, piano, performer [baritone], handclaps [claps], finger snaps [snaps], cymbal [bowed]
  • Nicolas Bragg - lead guitar, vocals, e-bow, trumpet, organ [air], cymbal [cymbal crashes], piano, finger snaps [snaps]
  • Daniel Bejar - vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, organ, piano, melodica, percussion, whistle [side], handclaps [claps], finger snaps [snaps], lead guitar [bigmuff lead]

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