Against the Night

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Against the Night
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Studio album by
Released1999
Genre Folk
Length61:59
Label 11 Records
Producer Jason Webley
Jason Webley chronology
Viaje
(1998)
Against the Night
(1999)
Counterpoint
(2002)
Professional ratings
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Against the Night is the second album, released originally in 1999, by Jason Webley. It was re-released by Springman Records in 2003. He has been known to regard it as his depressing album, "the soundtrack to a subtle apocalypse." It is his most popular album to date, and Webley regards it as the album where he really comes into his own as a songwriter. [2]

Contents

The track "Last Song" appeared in the ninth episode of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, titled "PYRAMID".

Track listing

  1. "Against the Night" – 4:41
  2. "2 am" – 2:19
  3. "Entropy" – 1:24
  4. "Winter" – 4:05
  5. "Devil be Good" – 2:54
  6. "Jack of Spades" – 1:55
  7. "Dance While the Sky Crashes Down" – 4:29
  8. "Ontogeny" – 2:15
  9. "Again the Night" – 3:40
  10. "Millennium Bug" – 4:02
  11. "Constellation Prize" – 2:12
  12. "Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" – 5:23
  13. "Eleutheria" – 4:59
  14. "Captain, Where are We Going Now?" – 5:17
  15. "Back to the Garden" – 4:01
  16. "Last Song" – 6:05
  17. "Lullaby" – 2:18

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Against the Night". Jason Webley. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-02.