The Night | ||||
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Released | February 1, 2000 | |||
Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
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Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Label | DreamWorks | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | [2] |
Des Moines Register | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Los Angeles Times | [5] |
Orlando Sentinel | [6] |
Pitchfork Media | 5.7/10[7] |
Rolling Stone | [8] |
Spin | 8/10[9] |
The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine, released in 2000 via DreamWorks.[4][10] The album expands the band's sound beyond their usual arrangements of previous albums (bass, saxophone and drums), introducing acoustic guitars, organs, strings and female backing vocals.[11]
The album peaked at No. 137 on the Billboard 200.[12]
Jerome Deupree, the band's original drummer, who had previously quit due to health problems, rejoined as a guest playing alongside Billy Conway, according to credits listed in the CD booklet,[13] thus making The Night Morphine's first album recorded as a quartet rather than a trio.[14][15] Recording sessions for the album were completed shortly before the sudden July 1999 death of bass player and lead singer Mark Sandman; Conway and saxophonist Dana Colley oversaw the final mixing process.[16] The band spent two years working on the album[15] in Sandman's Cambridge home studio.[11][17]
The Pitch wrote that "it’s not a romantic exaggeration to say that this album is the trio’s most sensuous, satisfying recording, finally delivering on the diverting-but-two-dimensional original notion of what Sandman termed 'low rock' ... The Night is the first time in ages a posthumous release has made noise from beyond the grave that doesn’t sound like a cash register."[18] Trouser Press wrote that "the tone may be dour due to the singer’s sudden death, but the music is the most fully realized and finely textured Morphine ever mustered."[16] Exclaim! called the album "a slow, grinding burlesque that hovers tentatively between testifying to above and wallowing down below."[19]
All songs written by Mark Sandman.
Adapted from the album liner notes.[13]
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US Billboard 200 | 137 |
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