this night (destroyer)
A black sky record, a few glittering stars. Vast and sparse, pretty. Most of this album is skippable, the songs often feel too long and like there's not enough happening, or not enough melody to seduce me. But a few tracks from this album are personal classics: "This Night," "Here Comes the Night," and especially "I Have Seen A Light" are late-night driving classics, airy and contemplative. The melodic crash of the guitar chord in that third song is loaded with so many currents of personal nostalgia, as is the "Ba-Ba, Whoa-whoa-whoa" denouement of the second.
"Crystal Country" is another good one, and the lingering favorite from this record is "Students Carve Hearts Out Of Coal"- the riff in that song, sweet, club jazz- a lovely wistful melodic shrug.
Black with gold flakes, that's the official color of this record.
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