{"product_id":"latenighttales-10","title":"LateNightTales","description":"Liner Note Authors: Bill Brewster; Jon Hopkins.\u003cbr\u003ePhotographer: Steve Glick.\u003cbr\u003eIt would be an understatement to say that Jon Hopkins' career turned a corner between the release of his first mix album, The Art of Chill 2, and the release of his second one, a volume in the LateNightTales series. For starters, from late 2005 through early 2015, the producer\/musician made albums with Brian Eno and King Creosote, composed music for a dance production and films, and released the well-regarded solo recordings Insides and Immunity. LateNightTales is Hopkins' first \"proper\" mix album since the tracks for The Art of Chill 2 were dealt to him. This time, Hopkins selected and mixed, and added his own touches, including piano and synthesizer, to enhance the continuous dream-like sequence. Even the contrasting consecutive picks -- like Darkstar's glistening, skyward \"Hold Me Down\" and Holy Other's dragging, alien \"Yr Love\" -- are compatible, their transitions made with ease. The majority of the mix is beatless and becalmed with periodic surges in energy that never startle. The Four Tet's \"Gillie Amma, I Love You,\" drifting and hypnotizing with children's melodic whispers, is an ideal set-up for School of Seven Bells' bright-eyed, windswept dream pop. Hopkins inserts an exclusive of his own, a quiet, multi-piano cover of Yeasayer's \"I Remember\" that would highlight any ambient compilation released on Kranky, Kompakt, or Ghostly. Rick Holland, another Eno collaborator, provides the closing reading of a piece he wrote, which just happens to share its title with the Yeasayer original. ~ Andy Kellman","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47813246419231,"sku":"5060391090269","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/a60b21d1bd9b4bbed8fcfb4d88f0d2d1_55574db3-9748-4815-bfbc-9e2d15740dc6.jpg?v=1777801062","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/latenighttales-10","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}