(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.
The order of tracks on this CD does not match up with the official track listing on the front of the CD or in online stores.


   


Track List:
01 Depending On You
02 Easy Does It
03 Human Hearts
04 Lost Moon
05 Love's In Love
06 Moonbathin
07 Fear Of Flying
08 Only You Know
09 You're Silver


Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, indie-pop
Country: Philadelphia, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits


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