For the 46th release, in the Late Night Tales Series, Canadian quartet BADBADNOTGOOD take on creating the ultimate "late night" selection of trracks from their record collections. 2LP Includes Mixed / Unmixed Download Code
Keeping with the careful thought and high production values that have marked the Late Night Tales series since 2001, this isn’t a soundtrack; BadBadNotGood are disk-jockeying your late night experience, overlaying tracks to bleed into and out of each other perfectly. It’s an album of movements, not songs.
From the opening space meditations of Boards of Canada’s Olson to the bump-hiss-zip groove of Kiki Gyan’s Disco Dancer, BadBadNotGood keep you on your toes, but thanks to some skilled mixing every transition feels at once revelatory and inevitable.
Aside from the geographic and stylistic scope here, the vocal performances are the biggest reason to check out the album. Almost all – from the likes of Gene Williams, Esther Phillips, The Beach Boys, Donnie & Joe Emerson, Grady Tate, and Steve Kuhn – have some distinctive and ineffable pull. You may spend a lifetime searching record store new acquisitions bins; once you find voices like these, you don’t let them get too far away. BadBadNotGood have packed more than a dozen little viruses into this disk, and once you hear it, you’ll be spreading the ill, too.
| A1 | –Boards Of Canada | Olson | 1:32 |
| A2 | –Erasmo Carlos | Vida Antiga | 3:23 |
| A3 | –Gene Williams (5) | Don't Let Your Love Fade Away | 2:47 |
| A4 | –The Chosen Few | People Make The World Go Round | 3:19 |
| A5 | –Esther Phillips | Home Is Where the Hatred Is | 3:25 |
| A6 | –Delegation | Oh Honey | 5:59 |
| B1 | –Velly Joonas | Käes on aeg | 2:52 |
| B2 | –Stereolab | The Flower Called Nowhere | 4:55 |
| B3 | –Kiki Gyan | Disco Dancer | 6:57 |
| B4 | –Admas | Anchi Bale Game | 5:15 |
| C1 | –Francis Bebey | Sanza Nocturne | 5:52 |
| C2 | –Thundercat | For Love I Come | 3:35 |
| C3 | –River Tiber, Daniel Caesar (2) | West | 2:32 |
| C4 | –Charlotte Day Wilson | Work | 3:44 |
| C5 | –The Beach Boys | Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) | 2:59 |
| C6 | –Donnie & Joe Emerson | Baby | 4:11 |
| D1 | –Les Prospection | Lido | 3:44 |
| D2 | –Grady Tate | And I Love Her | 4:48 |
| D3 | –BadBadNotGood | To You (Exclusive Cover Version) | 2:26 |
| D4 | –Steve Kuhn | The Meaning Of Love | 3:00 |
| D5 | –Lydia Lunch | You, Me And Jim Beam | 4:26 |
