Night Beats - New Day

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KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Night Beats - "New Day" from the 2021 album Outlaw R&B on Fuzz Club.

Danny Lee Blackwell — who records as Night Beats — returns June 4th with his fifth album, Outlaw R&B, an album he says "is music for the borderless, the free, the outcasts and the forgotten." He continues in his press release, "The outlaw is the runner. Those whose minds aren't sold by perfect pitch and clean fingernails. Through this medium you can escape the confines of mental feudalism and bask in the euphoric glow of psychedelic R&B."

He describes today's Song of the Day as his "postcard from purgatory," adding, "Upon going into lockdown I holed myself up with Akira Kurosawa movies and canned goods. This is the result of sleepless nights while hearing the world crumble outside my window. I sing of desperation and loss, while grinning in the face of an uncertain future."

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0:00.0	I can see the sun glowed down from my eye
0:20.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
0:27.0	Long, forever
0:35.0	In the light, all my mind was doing the places I could eat
0:44.0	And my thoughts increased and my focus was on me
0:50.0	In the place where I stayed in the light
1:02.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
1:09.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
1:15.0	Why does the night take control of my eyes?
1:23.0	When you're sure, when I feel it down in the ocean
1:35.0	This stars, when it battered in the valley of your teeth
1:44.0	It's starting to blow in the ocean under
1:53.0	These signs I can't erase when I feel it
1:59.0	Let's see the sun down in the rain
2:05.0	Maybe it's something to me to see what I'm in
2:18.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
2:24.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
2:31.0	Why does the night take control of my eyes?
2:48.0	I will close that cell for myself that wasn't long
2:54.0	Why does the night take control of my eyes?
3:17.0	Thank you for watching!

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