Night Melody

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Night Melody
Rival Consoles - Night Melody.png
Studio album by
Rival Consoles
Released5 August 2016 (2016-08-05)
Genre Electronic [1]
Length33:43
Label Erased Tapes
Rival Consoles chronology
Howl
(2015)		Night Melody
(2016)		 Persona
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 6.9/10 [2]
Metacritic 75/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [4]
Exclaim! 7/10 [5]
Mixmag 7/10 [6]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [7]

Night Melody is the fourth studio album by British electronic musician Ryan Lee West, performing under his stage name Rival Consoles. It was released on 5 August 2016, Erased Tapes Records. [8]

Contents

Production

Writing for Night Melody began in late-2015, at the same time West's third album Howl was released. West had just come out of a 13-year relationship, inspiring the release of his fourth studio album. [8] In response to the release, West said: "I’ve been working on the mini album for four or five months straight. And I don’t mean that in the glamorous way. It’s been destroying my brain; there’s been a lot of problem solving. The ideas themselves always come quickly, it’s more the second stage of making things better and solving problems." [9]

Critical reception

Night Melody was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 75, based on 6 reviews. [3] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 72 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews. [10]

Writing for AllMusic, Paul Simpson said "The short album is relatively straightforward, with six tracks of subdued, atmospheric techno -- no filler, no beating around the bush. The album isn't quite as dark or sad as one might expect, given the context. It seems like a logical extension of the path he's been taking with his previous few recordings." [1] Stephen Proski of Drowned in Sound wrote "Night Melody was developed as a result of the incarcerated experience of working in abject environments with digital technology: the haunting yet comforting background noise of a hard drive humming. West, when left alone to his devices, is able to transform emotion into the esoteric, colluding synthesis into vibrant, organic swaths of sound." [4] The staff at Mixmag praised West for a richer and more complex sound than his previous releases. [6]

Track listing

Night Melody track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Pattern of the North"5:50
2."Johannesburg"7:22
3."Slow Song"3:52
4."Lone"5:55
5."Night Melody"5:22
6."What Sorrow"5:22

Charts

Chart performance for Night Melody
Chart (2016)Peak
position
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [11] 18

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Simpson, Paul. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic? . Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  4. 1 2 Proski, Stephen (6 August 2016). "Drowned in Sound Review". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. ↑ Sylvester, Daniel (3 August 2016). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim! . Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Mixmag Review". Mixmag . 9 September 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  7. ↑ Scheim, Benjamin (5 August 2016). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  8. 1 2 Kolada, Brian (9 June 2016). "Rival Consoles returns with new mini album, Night Melody". Resident Advisor . Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  9. ↑ Protz, Adam. "Rival Consoles: Turning Darkness Into Melody". Headliner Magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  11. ↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
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