This Night (album)

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This Night
This Night (Front Cover).png
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2, 2002
Genre Indie rock
Length68:02
Label Merge
Destroyer chronology
Streethawk: A Seduction
(2001)
This Night
(2002)
Your Blues
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media 4.4/10 [2]

This Night is the fifth studio album by Destroyer, released on October 2, 2002. It was their first on Merge Records. Most of the material was written in Madrid, where Dan Bejar went to sidestep a tour with The New Pornographers, following the critical success of that supergroups's first album. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

The song, "Hey, Snow White" was covered by The New Pornographers, whose version appears on Dark Was the Night .

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Bejar.

No.TitleLength
1."This Night"5:57
2."Holly Going Lightly"5:08
3."Here Comes the Night"6:35
4."The Chosen Few"3:59
5."Makin' Angels"4:14
6."Hey, Snow White"7:54
7."Modern Painters"3:00
8."Crystal Country"3:44
9."Trembling Peacock"4:16
10."I Have Seen a Light"5:06
11."Students Carve Hearts out of Coal"3:46
12."Goddess of Drought"3:31
13."Self Portrait with Thing (Tonight Is Not Your Night)"6:26
14."The Relevant Ballads"0:37
15."The Night Moves"3:49
Total length:68:02

Personnel

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References

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  3. "An Interview with Destroyer's Dan Bejar". freewilliamsburg.com.
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