Nightcrawler (album)

For other uses, see Nightcrawler (disambiguation) § Albums.

Not to be confused with Night Crawler (album).

Nightcrawler
Studio album by Pete Yorn
Released	August 29, 2006 (2006-08-29)
Studio	41 Market St. (Venice, CA) Red Swan Studios (Los Angeles, CA) Zeitgeist Studios (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre	Rock
Length	51:30
Label	Red Ink Columbia
Producer	Butch Walker Evan Frankfort Ken Andrews Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn Tony Berg
Pete Yorn chronology
Day I Forgot (2003) Nightcrawler (2006) Back & Fourth (2009)
Singles from Nightcrawler
"For Us" Released: 2006 "Alive" Released: 2007

Nightcrawler is the third full-length studio album by American musician Pete Yorn. It was released on August 29, 2006 via Red Ink/Columbia Records. Production was handled by Michael Beinhorn, Tony Berg, Butch Walker, Evan Frankfort, Ken Andrews and Yorn himself. In the United States, the album peaked at number 50 on the Billboard 200 and number 17 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	67/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Blender	[3]
Cokemachineglow	68/100% [4]
IGN	7.3/10 [5]
PopMatters	7/10 [6]
Prefix	5/10 [7]
Slant	[8]
Spin	[9]
Sputnikmusic	4/5 [10]
The A.V. Club	B [11]

Nightcrawler was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67 based on sixteen reviews. ^[1]

Paste magazine ranked the album at No. 16 on their 'Top 100 Albums of 2006' list. ^[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Vampyre"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:08
2.	"For Us"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:32
3.	"Undercover"	Ken Andrews	3:55
4.	"Policies"	Tony Berg	3:40
5.	"The Man"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:24
6.	"Maybe I'm Right"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:39
7.	"Same Thing"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:45
8.	"Alive"	Butch Walker Pete Yorn	3:46
9.	"Splendid Isolation"	Evan Frankfort Pete Yorn	3:46
10.	"Broken Bottle"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	3:40
11.	"How Do You Go On?"	Tony Berg	3:35
12.	"Ice Age"	Michael Beinhorn Pete Yorn	5:13
13.	"Georgie Boy"	Tony Berg	3:18
14.	"Bandstand in the Sky"	Tony Berg	3:09
Total length:			51:30

Personnel

• Peter Joseph "Pete" Yorn – vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, bass, organ, drums, percussion, drum machine, harmonica, mandolin, producer (tracks: 1, 2, 5-10, 12), programming
• Michael Beinhorn – mini-moog, synthesizer & electronic drums (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 7, 12), producer (tracks: 1, 2, 5-7, 10, 12)
• Tim Walker – electric guitar (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 12)
• Zach Shaeffer – piano, bass & mandolin (tracks: 2, 5, 12)
• Rami Jaffee – organ (tracks: 2, 5)
• Dave Grohl – drums (track 2)
• Ken Andrews – electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, producer & programming (track 3)
• Tim Dow – drums (track 3)
• Anthony Rains "Tony" Berg – electric guitar (tracks: 4, 14), horns (track 4), organ (track 13), producer (tracks: 4, 11, 13, 14)
• Natalie Maines – backing vocals (track 5)
• Joe Kennedy – piano (tracks: 5, 6, 9, 12)
• Farmer Dave Scher – steel guitar & melodica (tracks: 5, 9, 12)
• Martie Maguire – fiddle (track 5)
• Sid Jordan – bass (tracks: 6, 7)
• Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker – piano, synth, bass, producer & percussion (track 8)
• Michael Guy Chislett – electric guitar (track 8)
• Darren Dodd – drums (track 8)
• Evan Frankfort – electric guitar, piano & producer (track 9)
• Marc Dauer – electric guitar (track 10)
• Shawn Everett – saxophone (track 13), programming, recording & mixing (tracks: 4, 5, 11, 13, 14)
• Nick Page – engineering (tracks: 1, 2, 5-7, 10, 12)
• Karl Egsieker – engineering (track 8)
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering

Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [13]	50
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [14]	17

References

1. "Critic Reviews for Nightcrawler - Metacritic". Metacritic . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
2. Wilson, MacKenzie. "Nightcrawler - Pete Yorn | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
3. Schoemer, Karen. "Pete Yorn : Nightcrawler Review on Blender :: The Ultimate Guide to Music and More". Blender . Retrieved November 21, 2007– via Wayback Machine.
4. Eley, Craig (September 8, 2006). "Cokemachineglow.com : Pete Yorn: Nightcrawler". Cokemachineglow . Retrieved December 31, 2007– via Wayback Machine.
5. Grischow, Chad (September 2, 2006). "Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler". IGN . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
6. Xia, Edward (September 21, 2006). "Pete Yorn: Nightcrawler » PopMatters". PopMatters . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
7. Reid, Brian (September 28, 2006). "Pete Yorn . Nightcrawler [prefixmag review]". Prefix. Retrieved November 21, 2007– via Wayback Machine.
8. Keefe, Jonathan (September 8, 2006). "Review: Pete Yorn, Nightcrawler". Slant Magazine . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
9. Marchese, David (October 2006). "Reviews » New CDs". Spin . Vol. 22, no. 10. SPIN Media LLC. p. 105. ISSN   0886-3032.
10. "Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler (album review ) | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. December 28, 2006. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
11. Phipps, Keith (September 12, 2006). "Pete Yorn: Nightcrawler". The A.V. Club . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
12. Killingsworth, Jason (January 15, 2007). "Paste's Top 100 Albums of 2006". Paste . Retrieved April 30, 2025.
13. "Pete Yorn Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
14. "Pete Yorn Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 30, 2025.

External links

• Pete Yorn – Nightcrawler at Discogs (list of releases)