Days and Nights builds on last year's debut album, adding a richer palette of instruments to the mix. Strings, mallets, reeds, and keys mingle with vocal harmonies, chants, and drones, creating a warm, organic psychedelia that rises and falls around bass-driven grooves. The songwriting is sharper, the arrangements more adventurous, and the abundance of ideas are drawn out into unique textures.
Influences range from the metronomic groove of krautrock, through to the space jazz of "Bitches Brew", via a clear fondness for Suicide, Talk Talk, and the Fall. The results are shot through with a DIY work ethic and low-fi sensibility, as well as an ear for a good tune. Songs are allowed to unfold at their own pace, though nothing outstays its welcome and the record clocks in at just over half an hour.
This cohesive base allows the songs to break out in unexpected directions and experiments with texture. The taught rhythm of album opener "Why We Hide" gives way to the more ominous echoes of "Where You're Going" and the hypnotic pulse of "Going Out Staying In". The contrasts continue as the shimmering "Raptures and Roses" is followed by the deranged drones of "One Thousand Years" and the languid transcendence of "I Called You Back".
“The writing is indeed sharper and the arrangements more adventurous without ever getting too adventurous for their own good, the musical ideas are very much drawn out into what really are rather warm rather unique textures... it has been on repeat and played pretty much every day for weeks now.”
Organ Thing
“Exploding with fresh, forward-thinking ideas, breaking the boundaries set on 'Sudden Voices' with a record that constantly sparks new senses every time you listen to it.”
Sun 13
| Track | Timing |
|---|---|
| Why We Hide | 03:08 |
| Where You're Going | 03:58 |
| No Place For Honest Men | 03:21 |
| Going Out Staying In | 03:29 |
| Galaxies | 02:48 |
| Raptures and Roses | 03:50 |
| One Thousand Years | 04:57 |
| I Called You Back | 04:16 |
| The World Turned Red | 01:56 |
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