Sky At Night
>> 3 Track Album Promo
>> Hijacked
I used to love the Sky at Night. It was great. Patrick Moore (soon to become The Games Master) calmly and lovingly discussing and describing the latest celestial news with academically respected guests displaying varying low levels of charisma; gently being overshadowed by the be-monocled giant! And all in the deathly hours after midnight when you fancied yourself as a bit of an astrologer with your Argos telescope on its plastic stand, planted on the windowsill pointing at the featureless clouds.
Having nothing to do with all this is The Sky At Night; a sublime new band peddling adventurous wares in the vein of the Arcade Fire and My Latest Novel. In terms of hugely imaginative bands there is an embarrassment of riches out there at the moment and, in my opinion, that’s still not enough! The more love and care that goes into a well-structured and beautiful ep the better – and based on this promo, The Sky At Night has talent and imagination in bundles. The evidence is there in the speakers.
‘Plucky Scot Goes Down Fighting’ has a distinct Flaming Lips-y ache to it, ‘My Reasons’ is the soundtrack to a piece of underground European cinema not yet realised and ‘Goodnight, Sleepyhead’ has the slide guitar sound of the soul itself. Everything here yearns with a seemingly dreamy ease; songs build in tremendous crescendos that twist and bellow with the sound of Mother Nature’s fiery wrath. This is exactly the type of band to dream of in those deathly midnight hours as you stare at the sky looking for stars.
The album ‘Hope for Dummies’ is released in April.
>> Russell Moore
www.theskyatnight.net
>> Hijacked
I used to love the Sky at Night. It was great. Patrick Moore (soon to become The Games Master) calmly and lovingly discussing and describing the latest celestial news with academically respected guests displaying varying low levels of charisma; gently being overshadowed by the be-monocled giant! And all in the deathly hours after midnight when you fancied yourself as a bit of an astrologer with your Argos telescope on its plastic stand, planted on the windowsill pointing at the featureless clouds.
Having nothing to do with all this is The Sky At Night; a sublime new band peddling adventurous wares in the vein of the Arcade Fire and My Latest Novel. In terms of hugely imaginative bands there is an embarrassment of riches out there at the moment and, in my opinion, that’s still not enough! The more love and care that goes into a well-structured and beautiful ep the better – and based on this promo, The Sky At Night has talent and imagination in bundles. The evidence is there in the speakers.
‘Plucky Scot Goes Down Fighting’ has a distinct Flaming Lips-y ache to it, ‘My Reasons’ is the soundtrack to a piece of underground European cinema not yet realised and ‘Goodnight, Sleepyhead’ has the slide guitar sound of the soul itself. Everything here yearns with a seemingly dreamy ease; songs build in tremendous crescendos that twist and bellow with the sound of Mother Nature’s fiery wrath. This is exactly the type of band to dream of in those deathly midnight hours as you stare at the sky looking for stars.
The album ‘Hope for Dummies’ is released in April.
>> Russell Moore
www.theskyatnight.net
