Days and Nights, by Sudden Voices

Days and Nights

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releases May 10, 2024

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	1.	Why We Hide 03:08 video
	2.	Where You're Going
	3.	No Place For Honest Men
	4.	Going Out Staying In
	5.	Galaxies
	6.	Raptures and Roses 03:50
	7.	One Thousand Years
	8.	I Called You Back
	9.	The World Turned Red

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"Days and nights" is the second album by Sudden Voices, a project led by Ben Morris, who returned to music last year after a hiatus of more than fifteen years.

Days and Nights builds on last year's debut album, adding a richer palette of instruments to the mix. Strings, mallets, reeds, and keys mingle with vocal harmonies, chants, and drones, creating an organic psychedelia that rises and falls around bass-driven grooves. The songwriting is sharper, the arrangements more adventurous, and the abundance of ideas are drawn out into unique textures.

Influences range from the metronomic pulse of krautrock, through to the space jazz of "Bitches Brew", via a clear fondness for "Spirit of Eden" era Talk Talk and, inevitably, the Fall. There is a careful attention to detail here as a multitude of ideas are teased into a lucid and harmonious whole. Songs are allowed to unfold at their own pace, though nothing outstays its welcome and the record clocks in at just over half an hour.

This cohesive base allows the songs to break out in unexpected directions. The taut rhythm of album opener “Why We Hide” gives way to the more ominous echoes of “Where You’re Going” and the swelling hum of “No Place For Honest Men”. The minimalist pulse of “Going Out Staying In” leads on to the lysergic crescendo of “Galaxies”. The contrasts continue as the shimmering “Raptures and Roses” is followed by the deranged drones of “One Thousand Years” and the languid transcendence of “I Called You Back”.

Beneath all this sound painting there is a theme of frustration in a world of cynical politics and collapsing institutions. The vocal harmonies rage at the grifters who “buy and sell your time” and feed on our collective apathy. The album closer suggests that it wouldn’t take much to shake us out of this inertia and “make the world turn red”.

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releases May 10, 2024

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London based group mixing ragged space jazz with off-kilter krautrock.

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