Lurkers, by The Night Bench

Lurkers

by The Night Bench

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Here's the second official LP from yours truly, The Night Bench! More beats, more stolen drum samples, more bass, more dirtyness, more haunted samples, and more noise! Embark on this continuing journey with me as I try to take the elements of electronic dance music and make them as un-danceable as I can.
This is my continuing ode to solitary night walks through forgotten alleyways. To spray paint and Krink pens rattling around in a bag, ready for action on the rooftops and in the lesser-known corners of the cement canyons that we call a city. To weaving under/around/through/over broken fences and lurking through the abandoned structures that our society have forgotten and let go to pot.
So, grab the biggest pair of headphones you can find and follow me! A midnight snack, liquids, and meditation medications will be provided for a select few.

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1.	Running of the Bulls (Union Pacific Edition) 03:09	buy track
2.	I Don't Really Know The Difference 03:28	buy track
3.	Woozy Confections 02:35	buy track
4.	What Do You Mean "Oops"?! 03:46	buy track
5.	Slap Tags 02:50	buy track
6.	PAXIL CHUD 03:12	buy track
7.	Leghorn at the Controls 02:58	buy track
8.	If I Open This Trunk and There's a Dead Body in It, We're No Longer Brother and Sister 01:20	buy track
9.	I'd Rather Be Curling 04:37	buy track
10.	That Shadow Out The Corner of Your Eye 03:08	buy track
11.	I Like Mine to Say "WOW!" (v.2) 03:19	buy track
12.	I Believe We've Firmly Established That I'm Not a Morning Person 02:28	buy track
13.	7 oz. Juggernaut 02:48	buy track
14.	You've GOT to be Thankful 03:41	buy track

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This is the second official installment in my unconscious attempt to fall even further between the cracks of genres. My quest to utilize elements of my favorite kinds of music, from dance music and hip hop, to death metal, industrial noise, and pop music, everyone one of those early Trance Syndicate recordings, turning them upside down and filtering them through abandoned train yards and forgotten homesteads, through the fresh smell of Rustoleum at 3 AM and the crack of a forgotten snare sample stolen from the depths of an old VHS tape.
Nighttime, aka “the wee hours” were when these tracks were summoned and honed. They aren’t meant for the club, they won’t get you dancing, but they should, if I’ve done my job right, make certain parts of your brain light up and sparkle green with satisfaction.
The only reason I make music is because there are songs I want to hear, album cycles I want to experience, that no one has made yet. So rather than sit around and wait for someone to do it, I opted to do it myself. These songs were tailor made for my brain, and since there is nothing special or unique about me or my brain, I’m hoping they’ll work for others as well. Yes, this is niche music, it will never achieve what any sane person would consider “popularity,” but it fills a void in the sonic landscape that we call music..
It lurks around the shadows of more easily-defined genres, watching, taking bits from this and that, and it culminates in a junkyard version of dance music… dance music for people who understand what dancing is, but don’t know how to do it. It’s a soundtrack those pleasantly lonely, late night walks through dis-used alleyways and quiet neighborhoods, checking out what the graffiti artists have to say with their esoteric characters, or glancing through an open window, in to a well lit room, in a non-creepy way as you walk by, looking at how others choose to decorate and live in this thing called life.
These are songs for the introverts, for the comfortably numb, for those that actually listen to music. It’s not for the “shuffle everything” crew, for people who music only serves as background filler. This is for active listening, not for passive listening. There are no singles here, and everything was sequenced very specifically to soundtrack a story of the night.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. Cheers!
-TNB

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released December 12, 2020

All broken sounds: The Night Bench
Mastered by: Gus Elg at Sky Onion
CDs Pressed by: Atomic Disc
Cover Design and Composition: Windy-Ayres Wray
Front Cover Image, "Glitch Man": T. Davidsohn

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The Night Bench Portland, Oregon

Making music for those late night walks through a sleeping city. Preferred means of listening: A giant pair of headphones that you can seal yourself inside of, while wearing smaller, yet still giant 70s-style headphones, with ear buds nestled inside. Listening to any kind of music via laptop speakers is for chumps.
Thanks for listening!
Love,
The NB ... more

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