Snappy Little Numbers / Debt Offensive (2023)
Night Court released a double cassette salvo in December of 2021 and May of 2022. These were really fun albums and as usual, my biggest lament was over the fact that they had not been released on vinyl. Well, Night Court is back with their new album and this time, we've got wax.
Much like their last two releases, Humans! is full of tight, economical pop songs. I've compared the band to So Cow every time I've written about them, and I'll do it again now. The way they construct their low-medium fi songs is similar to my ears, even though the vocals are much different. I've always struggled to find a good touch point for the vocals, but listening to this album really crystallized everything for me. I can't listen to Night Court and not hear a little bit of Ween in there now.
Night Court is not as goofy or silly as Ween is, but if you've spent any time with Ween's catalog, you are well aware of their pop chops. There's a similar spirit here and in the vocals I can definitely feel a kinship as far as inflection or delivery. There's probably a little bit of Mike Krol in there two, from the garage-y side of the equation.
No matter how you want to try to identify their influences, there's no denying that Night Court has a winner with Humans! It's a fun, fuzzy pop record and that's before we even get to the album closing Abba cover. Despite the exclamation point in the title making my sentence structures look ridiculous while writing about it, Humans! is a record worth going out of your way to check out.
Night Court - Humans!:
https://snappylittlenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/humans
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