Where Did the Night Fall

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Where Did the Night Fall
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Studio album by
Released10 May 2010 (2010-05-10)
11 April 2011 (2011-04-11) (Another Night Out edition)
Recorded2009-2010
Genre Electronic
Length57:15
Label Surrender All
Unkle chronology
End Titles... Stories for Film
(2008)
Where Did the Night Fall
(2010)
The Road: Part 1
(2017)
Singles from Where Did the Night Fall
  1. "Heavy Drug (Surrender Sounds Mix)"
    Released: 16 August 2009
  2. "Natural Selection"
    Released: 28 March 2010
  3. "Follow Me Down"
    Released: 13 June 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Gigwise (positive) [1]
Las Vegas Critics(9.4/10) [2]
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Pitchfork (5.9/10) [5]
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Where Did the Night Fall is the fourth studio album from British electronic music act Unkle, released on 10 May 2010. [7]

Contents

Background

As a documentation of the work on the album, on 13 April 2009, James Lavelle, Unkle's mastermind, started an official "UNKLE Blog". According to the first post, Lavelle started to work in studio in January 2009 with Pablo Clements, James Griffith, Joel Cadbury, Gavin Clark, Matt Pierce and Mike Lowry. [8]

Promotion

On 16 August 2009 a single, "Heavy Drug (Surrender Sounds Mix)", was made available digitally via Beatport and iTunes. On 27 December 2009 the download was followed by a remix EP with remixes by King Unique, Steve Mac and Future Beat Alliance. [9]

On 11 February 2010 a song, "Natural Selection", appeared as a streaming on Spin magazine's website, [10] and was later made available to download as a 320 kbit/s MP3 file, via UNKLE's official website. Beginning on 31 March, a Warm Digits remix of "Natural Selection" was made available for download to customers who had pre-ordered "Where Did the Night Fall" on UNKLE's online store. [11]

Available on the UNKLE website was a 2 disc limited edition of the album, which included a second disc containing instrumental versions of all the songs.

Where Did the Night Fall – Another Night Out

On 9 February 2011, UNKLE revealed that Where Did the Night Fall would be re-released as Where Did the Night Fall – Another Night Out. The first disc will contain the same songs that are on the original album but the second disc contains material from two of UNKLE's previous EPs, plus a number of exclusive and rare tracks. It was released on 11 April 2011.

The standard edition comes packaged as a double jewel case with a 16-page booklet. The limited edition comes in a gold outer slipcase featuring a fully re-worked 16-page board book and 32-page booklet with new exclusive shots from the original photo shoot with Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

Track listing

Standard

  1. "Nowhere" – 0:40
  2. "Follow Me Down" (featuring Sleepy Sun) – 4:23
  3. "Natural Selection" (featuring The Black Angels) – 4:10
  4. "Joy Factory" (featuring Autolux) – 3:59
  5. "The Answer" (featuring Big in Japan) – 4:40
  6. "On a Wire" (featuring ELLE J) – 4:52
  7. "Falling Stars" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:48
  8. "Heavy Drug" – 1:13
  9. "Caged Bird" (featuring Katrina Ford of Celebration) – 5:08
  10. "Ablivion" – 4:29
  11. "The Runaway" (featuring ELLE J) – 3:45
  12. "Ever Rest" (featuring Joel Cadbury of South) – 4:21
  13. "The Healing" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 4:27
  14. "Another Night Out" (featuring Mark Lanegan) – 5:12
  15. "Close Your Eyes" (featuring ELLE J) – 5:25 (available on the Australian edition)

Limited edition

  1. "Nowhere (Instrumental)" – 4:10
  2. "Follow Me Down (Instrumental)" – 4:23
  3. "Natural Selection (Instrumental)" – 4:10
  4. "Joy Factory (Instrumental)" – 3:59
  5. "The Answer (Instrumental)" – 4:40
  6. "On a Wire (Instrumental)" – 4:52
  7. "Falling Stars (Instrumental)" – 5:48
  8. "Heavy Drug (Instrumental)" – 4:24
  9. "Caged Bird (Instrumental)" – 5:08
  10. "Ablivion (Instrumental)" – 4:29
  11. "The Runaway (Instrumental)" – 3:45
  12. "Ever Rest (Instrumental)" – 4:21
  13. "The Healing (Instrumental)" – 4:27
  14. "Another Night Out (Instrumental)" – 5:12

Another Night Out

  1. "Somewhere" – 1:12
  2. "In My Mind" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 4:44
  3. "Money and Run" (featuring Nick Cave) – 5:16
  4. "The Dog Is Black" (featuring Liela Moss) – 5:03
  5. "Only the Lonely" (Over Dub) – 4:27
  6. "Wash the Love Away" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:12
  7. "Sunday Song" (featuring Rachel Fannan) – 6:46
  8. "With You in My Head" (featuring The Black Angels) – 5:11
  9. "Country Tune" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:16
  10. "Not a Sound" – 5:15
  11. "When the Lights Go Out/We Own the Night" – 5:36
  12. "Every Single Prayer" (featuring Gavin Clark) – 5:13
  13. "Forever" (featuring Ian Astbury) – 4:26 (Available on the Australian and Japanese Edition)

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic. [12]

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [13] 67
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [14] 73
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [15] 68
French Albums (SNEP) [16] 102
Irish Albums (IRMA) [17] 81
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 94
UK Albums (OCC) [19] 42
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [20] 7

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