(2017) Nightlands - I Can Feel the Night Around Me
Review:
Nightlands, the project of Philadelphia-based Dave Hartley (best known as a core member and longtime bassist of The War On Drugs), release his third album, I Can Feel the Night Around Me, on May 5th via Western Vinyl. Continuing the tradition of previous Nightlands releases Forget the Mantra (2010) and Oak Island (2013), I Can Feel the Night Around Me showcases Hartley’s ability to layer his voice and conjure some of the most beautiful virtual choirs in modern music.
If his first two records were vocal layering experiments, his third stands as Hartley’s thesis statement: “I was determined to use vocal stacking to enable my songwriting, not shroud or obscure it.” He recorded most of the album alone in a cold warehouse basement, which he affectionately calls The Space — it’s where The War on Drugs formerly rehearsed and stored their equipment. “The dissonance between the sound of the album and the atmosphere in which it was recorded is pretty striking,” Hartley says. Indeed the music seems more geographically inspired by the microclimates of the Lost Coast and the moonrises of Big Sur than the post-industrial cityscape of North Philadelphia. Perhaps his periodic westward sojourns and healthy obsessions with mid-career Beach Boys albums and Denis Johnson’s Already Dead: A California Gothic were influencing him more than he was aware.
Tracklist:
01 Depending On You.flac
02 Easy Does It.flac
03 Human Hearts.flac
04 Lost Moon.flac
05 Love's In Love.flac
06 Moonbathin.flac
07 Fear Of Flying.flac
08 Only You Know.flac
09 You're Silver.flac
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: dream-pop, indie-pop
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 770-870 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
