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Night Time

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When I first heard this album, the songs "Love Like Blood" and "Multitudes" were the initial ball-grabbers but after repeated listens, eventually I started diggin' the entire album.

and it would be even more definitive if it weren’t on the same album as the deserving classic “Love Like Blood”.

Yeah, songs like "Tabazan" get a little obscene, but dirty as they may seem, there's an arcane truth to all that's said on _Night Time_.

At gunpoint I'd pick 'Night Time,' 'Love Like Blood' or the most infamous song to be ripped off by Nirvana 'Eighties,' although 'Kings and Queens' and 'Europe' are extremely close. The album tracks have all been remastered in 2007, and although the music definitely sounds like it was made in the 80's, as it was, it sounds great. The album was remastered and reissued on CD in 2008 with nine bonus tracks, including 1984 Kid Jensen BBC radio sessions, the non-album single " A New Day" and the previously-unreleased complete version of "Blue Feather" (previously only available as an instrumental remix on the B-side to "Love Like Blood"). We need to start adressing that bands polishing their sound is not necessarily a bad thing, and this album may be the best proof of that. Yet between these two book ends there is some forgettable stuff, the nadir being the *awful* Tabazan, Coleman’s voice unbearably tuneless as he appears to take the piss out of Robert Smith over a generic “badass 80s” track.

The tension between the two sides of Killing Joke struck a perfect balance on Night Time, and as a result, it is arguably the quartet's freshest album to date, with a warm, anthemic quality now supplementing the blasting, driving approach that made the band's name. Yet, contrarily to what can be said of their utterly forgettable next two albums, Night Time was no sell-out. Mind you, you have to like the distinctive vocals, guitar and rhythms of this niche indy band though. By adding a little polish to their violent industrial post-punk racket, Killing Joke briefly became very popular in 1985, with “Love Like Blood” competing with the likes of Duran Duran and Madonna on the airwaves.

It still has that Killing Joke heaviness in spades, only tempered by those atmospheric synthesizers and Jaz Coleman’s clear-voiced moaning, not too far apart from Robert Smith’s. AllMusic commented that the album found the band "caught between their earlier aggression and a calmer, more immediately accessible approach".

Jaz Coleman’s vocals and synth are also another strong melodic front; very pleasing choruses especially. Can't believe I never tried them being into that era of indie, and having heard of them, bit thinking they were a minor band. Ned Raggett of AllMusic remarked that "" Eighties" turned out to be the retrospectively most well-known song, due to a surprising and not always remembered example of Killing Joke's influence -- Nirvana, of all groups, thoroughly cloned the watery guitar line at the heart of the track for " Come as You Are"".

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