Midnight North’s debut album, End of the Night, sonically picks up where Ryan Adams & the Cardinals left off, heartfelt rock & folk songs decked out in a tidy country rock nudie suit, smartly tailored with intuitively tight vocal harmonies and a steady beat. Produced by Connor and Grahame and recorded amidst the redwood groves at In The Pocket Studios in Forestville, CA, End of the Night peaks with a soaring slow burner that no great rock album would be complete without, Peck’s “All Remains the Same.” Worth a listen: the crisp guitars and memorable melody of opener “Falling,” the band strutting through “Miss M,” the gorgeous playing and singing on “Hold Me Down” and, of course, the closing title track. Lesh put it best when he said, “We’ve got a little bit of country in us, but it’s just rock n’ roll.”
Released 18 June 2013
Grahame Lesh – Electric & acoustic guitars, banjo & vocals
Elliott Peck – Acoustic guitar, piano, organ, Rhodes, Wurlitzer & vocals
Connor Jon O’Sullivan – Electric & upright bass, mandolin, baritone, piano & Minimoog
Eric Saar – Drums, percussion & piano
All songs by Midnight North
Miss M written and published by Toby Oler
Recorded September 2012 – March 2013
Produced by Connor Jon O’Sullivan & Grahame Lesh
Engineered by Mike Scully & Connor Jon O’Sullivan
Recorded at In The Pocket Studios in Forestville, CA
And in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco
Mixed by Connor Jon O’Sullivan
Mastered by Michael Romanowski
Special guest Fiddle Dave Muhlethaler on fiddle
All songs published by Elliconn Music, BMI
Photographs by David Nichols & Midnight North
Midnight North typography by Julie Nielsen
Layout and design by Connor Jon O’Sullivan