| Product Summary | | Label: 4AD RECORDS/ADA | | UPC: 00652637283525 | | Release Date: 2/17/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 210612048 | | Item#: M4K994 | Format:  CD |
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Song Listing
| Disc 1 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Knotty Pine | ------ | | 2. Cello Song | ------ | | 3. Train Song | ------ | | 4. Brackett, WI | ------ | | 5. Deep Blue Sea | ------ | | 6. So Far Around The Bend | ------ | | 7. Tightrope | ------ | | 8. Feeling Good | ------ | | 9. Dark Was The Night | ------ | | 10. I Was Young When I Left Home | ------ | | 11. Big Red Machine | ------ | | 12. Sleepless | ------ | | 13. Sleepless | ------ | | 14. Service Bell | ------ | | 15. Blood | ------ | | Disc 2 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Well ~ Alright | ------ | | 2. Lenin | ------ | | 3. Mimizan | ------ | | 4. El Caporal | ------ | | 5. Ispiration Information | ------ | | 6. With A Girl Like You | ------ | | 7. Blood Pt. 2 | ------ | | 8. Hey, Snow White | ------ | | 9. Gentle Hour | ------ | | 10. Another Saturday | ------ | | 11. Happiness | ------ | | 12. Amazing Grace | ------ | | 13. Giant Of Illinois, The | ------ | | 14. Lua | ------ | | 15. When The Road Runs Out | ------ | | 16. Love Vs. Porn | ------ |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Several years since the last compilation benefiting the Red Hot AIDS relief organization, DARK WAS THE NIGHT was compiled by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National and released on the pioneering UK indie 4AD Records. As a result, the 31 exclusive tracks on this two disc set read like a who's who of the most vital parts of the contemporary indie rock scene. Participants include several intriguing duets (Feist appears with both Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Brooklyn indie kings Grizzly Bear; Conor Oberst appears alongside Gillian Welch) and new bespoke songs by the likes of the Decemberists, the New Pornographers, Andrew Bird, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/17/2009 | | Original Release Date : 2009 | | Catalog ID : 728352 | | Label : 4AD/Beggars Group (USA) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00652637283525 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.69)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Feist flutters through a Vashti Bunyan gem with Ben Gibbard, and Sharon Jones sanctifies Shuggie Otis' psych-soul classic 'Inspiration Information.'"Spin (p.82)
- "[T]he latest in the Red Hot series of AIDS benefit albums plays like a musically and thematically linked NPR broadcast from a gentle corner of indie-rock heaven." Pitchfork (Website)
- "Sufjan Stevens breaks his relative silence with a cover of the Castanets' `You Are the Blood'..Infusing the track with a twitchy, restless quality, Stevens reimagines the song - musically as well as lyrically - as a tussle between the subject and his body." |
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