Reviews
8 out of 10 - "...the sound of Mark Sandman doing his damnedest to go beyond the 2-stringed bass slurps and baritone-sax blurts that veiled his band's rote blues redux....expanding Morphine's doeful drones with piano elegies, mourning strings and braying saxophone...", 3 stars out of 5 - "...the trio's nearly sub-sonic blues, jazz and beat poetry hybrid once again evoking a dangerous Spanish Harlem drinking den...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...he may be talking about space travel...but this is the closest to Heaven's Gate that music has yet to come....Mark Sandman was a visionary, a dark-eyed angel...", 4 out of 5 - "...makes the most mundane moments of life seem transcendent....Morphine prove that established bands can progress and mature with dignity...", "...may be Morphine's most chilling album. Impending danger, primal urges and beatnik minimalism were the key ingredients in their bohemian blues throb, and they're all here in spades...", 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...THE NIGHT is the band's most painstakingly layered and ambitious album, with cello, organ and oud expanding on the trio's original sax-y swagger...", "...The band's finest work....a fitting goodbye, dense with 2 years of struggle and pointed toward a new direction, a jazzy funk minimalism the rest of us can only dream about.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Groovy, rocky in parts and full of Sandman's laconic vocals, THE NIGHT is noir rock at is most stylish...", "...features some of the best work Mark Sandman's done....experimenting with the band's dark, often minimalist sound...the result is this lusher, more fully realised album...with songs that are variously cool, unsettling, sensual, personal and party-time funky..."
