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The Night
The Night
Studio album by Morphine
Released	February 1, 2000
Recorded	1998–1999
Studio	Hi-N-Dry (Cambridge); Super Sonic (Cambridge); Magic Shop (New York City);
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	DreamWorks
Producer	Mark Sandman; Morphine;
Morphine chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	^[2]
Des Moines Register	^[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]
Los Angeles Times	^[5]
Orlando Sentinel	^[6]
Pitchfork Media	5.7/10^[7]
Rolling Stone	^[8]
Spin	8/10^[9]

The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine, released in 2000 via DreamWorks.^[4]^[10] The album expands the band's sound beyond their usual arrangements of previous albums (bass, saxophone and drums), introducing acoustic guitars, organs, strings and female backing vocals.^[11]

The album peaked at No. 137 on the Billboard 200.^[12]

Production

Jerome Deupree, the band's original drummer, who had previously quit due to health problems, rejoined as a guest playing alongside Billy Conway, according to credits listed in the CD booklet,^[13] thus making The Night Morphine's first album recorded as a quartet rather than a trio.^[14]^[15] Recording sessions for the album were completed shortly before the sudden July 1999 death of bass player and lead singer Mark Sandman; Conway and saxophonist Dana Colley oversaw the final mixing process.^[16] The band spent two years working on the album^[15] in Sandman's Cambridge home studio.^[11]^[17]

Critical reception

The Pitch wrote that "it’s not a romantic exaggeration to say that this album is the trio’s most sensuous, satisfying recording, finally delivering on the diverting-but-two-dimensional original notion of what Sandman termed 'low rock' ... The Night is the first time in ages a posthumous release has made noise from beyond the grave that doesn’t sound like a cash register."^[18] Trouser Press wrote that "the tone may be dour due to the singer’s sudden death, but the music is the most fully realized and finely textured Morphine ever mustered."^[16] Exclaim! called the album "a slow, grinding burlesque that hovers tentatively between testifying to above and wallowing down below."^[19]

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Sandman.

"The Night" – 4:50
"So Many Ways" – 4:01
"Souvenir" – 4:40
"Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" – 5:44
"Like a Mirror" – 5:26
"A Good Woman Is Hard to Find" – 4:14
"Rope on Fire" – 5:36
"I'm Yours, You're Mine" – 3:46
"The Way We Met" – 2:59
"Slow Numbers" – 3:58
"Take Me with You" – 4:54

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.^[13]

Morphine

Mark Sandman – vocals, 2-string slide bass, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, trombone, tritar
Dana Colley – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, piano, backing vocals,
Billy Conway – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Jerome Deupree – drums (1–8, 10, 11)
Jane Scarpantoni – cello (1, 7, 11)
Mike Rivard – double bass (7, 11)
John Medeski – organ (4, 8)
Billy Beard – hand drum (7)
Brahim Fribgane – oud, frame drum (7)
Joseph Kessler – viola (7, 11)
Carolyn Kaylor – backing vocals (2, 4)
Linda Viens – backing vocals (2, 4)
Ramona Clifton – backing vocals (4)
Margaret Garrett – backing vocals (5)
Tara McManus – backing vocals (5)

Technical

Mark Sandman – producer, engineer (Hi-N-Dry)
Morphine – producer, art direction
Brian Dunton – engineer (Hi-N-Dry)
Matthew Ellard – engineer (Hi-N-Dry)
Juan Garcia – engineer (Magic Shop)
Reto Peter – engineer (Magic Shop)
Dave Kay – engineer (Super Sonic)
Toby Mountain – mastering
Robert Fisher – design

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
US Billboard 200	137

References

^ Prato, Greg. The Night at AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
^ Christgau, Robert (2000-03-28). "Consumer Guide". Village Voice.
^ Munson, Kyle (10 Feb 2000). "Morphine's Sandman brings listeners a dream". Des Moines Register: D11.
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 903.
^ Hochman, Steve (6 Feb 2000). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times: 1.
^ Gettelman, Parry (11 Feb 2000). "A NICE SEND-OFF FOR MORPHINE'S SANDMAN". Orlando Sentinel: 9.
^ Sage Rockermann, Kristin. "Morphine: The Night: Pitchfork review". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on November 23, 2001. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
^ Kot, Greg (March 2, 2000). "Morphine: The Night: Music review". Rolling Stone. No. RS 835. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
^ "Reviews". Spin. 16 (3): 147–148. Mar 2000.
^ "Morphine | Biography & History". AllMusic.
^ ^a ^b "Morphine Widen Sound On Final Album With Guitar, Organ, Strings". MTV News. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021.
^ "Morphine". Billboard.
^ ^a ^b The Night (CD liner notes). Morphine. DreamWorks. 2000. 0044-50056-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Morphine - My part of the puzzle". jeromedeupree.com. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Morphine on Twitter". Twitter. August 30, 2022. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Morphine". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ "Sharps & Flats". Salon. February 3, 2000.
^ "MORPHINE". February 24, 2000.
^ "Morphine The Night". exclaim.ca.