JOHN CONGLETON & THE NIGHTY NITE
''UNTIL THE HORROR GOES''
APRIL 1 2016
38:47
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01 - Animal Rites 03:51
02 - The White Powerless 03:46
03 - Your Temporary Custodian 05:06
04 - Just Lay Still 03:26
05 - Canaries In The Coal Mine 03:37
06 - Until It Goes 03:22
07 - Put Your Teeth In 03:59
08 - A Tale Told By An Idiot 03:17
09 - Who Could Love You Lucille? 03:46
10 - You Are Facing The Wrong Way 04:33
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REVIEW/AMG
James Christopher Monger
A nervy, sweat-inducing set of manic, hyper-literate electro-pop emissions that are as gloriously melodic as they are relentlessly atonal, the full-length debut from John Congleton and the Nighty Nite is about as far from easy listening as you can get. Congleton, who fronted twitchy post-punk rockers the Paper Chase and has produced albums for the likes of St. Vincent, Mountain Goats, and Strand of Oaks, attempts to dig deep into the human condition on the aptly named Until the Horror Goes. Drawing inspiration from, among other things, "the endless quest for the sublime, uncovering only the inane," Congleton has crafted an exhausting yet compulsively listenable barrage of noisy, skewed pop songs that get under your skin and ultimately lodge in your cerebral cortex -- imagine Xiu Xiu, Frog Eyes, They Might Be Giants, and Sparks collaborating after binging on Scott Walker's The Drift. Throughout the ten-track assault, singsongy melodies are pitted against huge blasts of synth-incited dissonance and strident, stilted percussion. Feisty opener "Animal Rites," which comes off like a twisted, carny-barked rendering of Iggy Pop's "Real Wild Child," offers up the purest example of the formula, while the lurching "Your Temporary Custodian" flips the script with a huge life-affirming chorus surrounded by a sea of sonic discord. Congleton's unhinged vocals add to the visceral nature of the outing, and some fatigue sets in toward the back half, but at just under 40 minutes, Until the Horror Goes is certainly digestible. However, listeners should definitely wait an hour before going swimming.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
James Christopher Monger
A Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, John Congleton, in addition to his impressive behind-the-board work, was the frontman for nervy post-punk rockers the Paper Chase and, more recently, the equally incendiary the Nighty Nite. Between 1998 and 2010 the Texas native released five albums with the Paper Chase, and during that time he also worked in the studio with a bevy of top-notch artists, including St. Vincent, the Roots/Erykah Badu, Swans, War on Drugs, and Mountain Goats, to name just a few. After the dissolution of the Paper Chase in 2010, Congleton formed the Nighty Nite and issued a four-song EP, Dimples, via Bandcamp and Graveface Records. The Nighty Nite's full-length debut, the Fat Possum-issued Until the Horror Goes, followed in early 2016.
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''UNTIL THE HORROR GOES''
APRIL 1 2016
38:47
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01 - Animal Rites 03:51
02 - The White Powerless 03:46
03 - Your Temporary Custodian 05:06
04 - Just Lay Still 03:26
05 - Canaries In The Coal Mine 03:37
06 - Until It Goes 03:22
07 - Put Your Teeth In 03:59
08 - A Tale Told By An Idiot 03:17
09 - Who Could Love You Lucille? 03:46
10 - You Are Facing The Wrong Way 04:33
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REVIEW/AMG
James Christopher Monger
A nervy, sweat-inducing set of manic, hyper-literate electro-pop emissions that are as gloriously melodic as they are relentlessly atonal, the full-length debut from John Congleton and the Nighty Nite is about as far from easy listening as you can get. Congleton, who fronted twitchy post-punk rockers the Paper Chase and has produced albums for the likes of St. Vincent, Mountain Goats, and Strand of Oaks, attempts to dig deep into the human condition on the aptly named Until the Horror Goes. Drawing inspiration from, among other things, "the endless quest for the sublime, uncovering only the inane," Congleton has crafted an exhausting yet compulsively listenable barrage of noisy, skewed pop songs that get under your skin and ultimately lodge in your cerebral cortex -- imagine Xiu Xiu, Frog Eyes, They Might Be Giants, and Sparks collaborating after binging on Scott Walker's The Drift. Throughout the ten-track assault, singsongy melodies are pitted against huge blasts of synth-incited dissonance and strident, stilted percussion. Feisty opener "Animal Rites," which comes off like a twisted, carny-barked rendering of Iggy Pop's "Real Wild Child," offers up the purest example of the formula, while the lurching "Your Temporary Custodian" flips the script with a huge life-affirming chorus surrounded by a sea of sonic discord. Congleton's unhinged vocals add to the visceral nature of the outing, and some fatigue sets in toward the back half, but at just under 40 minutes, Until the Horror Goes is certainly digestible. However, listeners should definitely wait an hour before going swimming.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
James Christopher Monger
A Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, John Congleton, in addition to his impressive behind-the-board work, was the frontman for nervy post-punk rockers the Paper Chase and, more recently, the equally incendiary the Nighty Nite. Between 1998 and 2010 the Texas native released five albums with the Paper Chase, and during that time he also worked in the studio with a bevy of top-notch artists, including St. Vincent, the Roots/Erykah Badu, Swans, War on Drugs, and Mountain Goats, to name just a few. After the dissolution of the Paper Chase in 2010, Congleton formed the Nighty Nite and issued a four-song EP, Dimples, via Bandcamp and Graveface Records. The Nighty Nite's full-length debut, the Fat Possum-issued Until the Horror Goes, followed in early 2016.
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