Night Fruit

Maybe there is something to that age-old Boston Phoenix local band cover jinx! After defying gravity and gracing the front page of our lil' alt-weekly back in January's "Class of 2011: Boston's 11 Best New Bands" feature, NIGHT FRUIT pretty much disappeared.

Several of the other bands featured, from RIBS to Stereo Telescope to to Banditas to Doomstar to Dirty Dishes, have become must-see players on our always-blossoming local scene, but the Allston-based whatever-gaze trio apparently hit some rough waters, and singer/guitarist Amanda Dellevigne ghosted town, resurfaced in a land-locked state, and joined up with the alt-rock ladies of Vanity Theft. The Ohio-based band self-describes their sound as "somewhere between the work of Sleater-Kinney and the Ting Tings," and well shit, that's actually a bit more criminal than stealing away from us the singer of Night Fruit!

Thankfully, after several months away, Dellevigne is back in town -- our gossip spies even caught her dining at Bagel Rising yesterday with one of the dudes in Young Adults, another of our Class of 2011 picks -- and after a warm-up house show last weekend, tonight Night Fruit returns to the nightclub circuit at Brighton Music Hall. They're opening up for Gold Motel and Farewell Continental, the latter of which is some side project featuring members of Motion City Soundtrack. Doors are at 6pm and the show starts at 7.

In a nice twist of coincidental fate, the aforementioned Vanity Theft makes their own Boston debut June 8 at Church, on a bill with Andre Obin and People At Parties (ex-Von Iva). Finally, we can all hug it out and get on with our lives.Needless to say, we're pretty happy to have Night Fruit back and around town.

If you need a refresher on Night Fruit's overal awesomeness, here's what we said about our beloved trio back in January: One of the drawbacks in our current culture of immediacy is that bands get thrust into the spotlight before they have a chance to flesh out their sound. If artist development is truly a thing of the past for major labels, perhaps the same can be said for the underground in a landscape of flipcams, twitpics, and party photos. In July 2010, when Cambridge trio Night Fruit released online a demo for their Triangles EP, we posted the entire thing to our "On the Download" blog. A few weeks later, they got the "Cellars by Starlight" treatment. Maybe that demo wasn't supposed to stick the way it did, but with its root gripped by notable "S"-ness (Swirlies, Slowdive, Swervedriver), the ambient, groggy, almost shoegazing dream-pop whirl of Night Fruit's guitar-buzzed sound became one of the freshest in the city. Forget about hanging a hat on new material. It'll be interesting to watch this infant band grow and develop their sound in 2011 — the results should be a hazy shade of spectacular. - Boston Phoenix

Name: Night Fruit
Location: Boston, USA
Genre: Indie-Pop
Described In One Sentence : There's a million indie-pop bands out there, but few sound as polished and catchy as Night Fruit.
For Fans of: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Broken Social Scene
Website: Bandcamp - the 405

Our Deli jurors just finished rating all the New England artists that submitted to be considered for our Year End Best of New England Poll for Emerging Artists - and here are the results for you to check out! The artists in this list will qualify for the next phase of the poll, and will be added to the bands nominated by our jury of local scenemakers.

P.S. If you are interested in understanding how our Year End Poll for Emerging Artists works, please go here.

-QUALIFIED TO THE POLL'S NEXT ROUND-

1. Night Fruit

Boston's Night Fruit blew the deli editors away, this shoegaze trio came out on top in New England and it's no wonder why. With a dreamy ambience, their music drifts along pulling you into their undertow giving you just enough time to breathe before their music swells up again leaving you gasping for more. Check out their bandcamp for their latest release, Dark Horse.
- Deli Magazine - New England

Eine wunderschöne, leicht folkig-verträumte Dienstagsperle hätte ich da im Angebot: Night Fruit ist eine sympathische Band aus Cambridge, die mit der im Dezember erschienenen Dark Horse 7? bereits ihre zweite EP veröffentlicht haben. Im Vergleich zum Vorgänger kommen die Dark Horse Songs aber eine Ecke lockerer, flockiger rüber – die Band hat definitiv ihren eigenen Stil gefunden, authentisch, irgendwo zwischen Hall und und einem Hauch Echo, so mag ich das. Ihr könnt die Single auf Bandcamp hören und kaufen:



Und dann gibts da noch ein schönes Video mit einem kleinen Hausbesuch bei Night Fruit, das ist zwar schon aus dem Jahre 2010 aber trotzdem sehens- bzw. hörenswert: - Shoegazr (Germany)

I have two dart boards on my wall at home right now, and they’re square instead of round. One of them is the calendar page for January and the other one is for February. There, I said it. I love Eckhart Tolle’s philosophy of living in the moment, but when it’s minus 40 degrees outside and snow is blowing horizontally in your face like tiny daggers at 60mph it’s awfully hard not to want out. Thank God for music though, especially Night Fruit’s brand new EP Dark Horse which they’re giving away for free (not exactly — you should really consider tossing the band a few very well deserved bucks when you download it in the link below). My personal favorite of all three tracks is by far the amazingness that is “Paper Thin”. The lyric “City’s draggin’ me down / Get away, find a cool escape” is particularly meaningful to me right now. Night Fruit is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is comprised of guitarists Amanda Dellevigne and Jonathan Gill as well as drummer Luke Sullivan. To get your own copy of Night Fruit’s Dark Horse simply CLICK HERE, and be sure to also follow them on Facebook. If you’re itchin’ for more you can also download their track “Sea Blood” HERE. - FEELguide

I suppose 2012 marks the year that Tiny Little Rockets became a real boy.

The past few months artists have been sending me their stuff. Which is a surreal thing. Not because this is important, or whatever.

But because I love music. A ridiculous amount. And it’s a cool feeling to finally be a part of it, in a way.

The band is called Night Fruit. They are from Boston. Their lead singer writes lovely emails and sounds an awful lot like Ritzy Bryan from The Joy Formidable (which is an awfully good thing).

They just released a 7” and you can stream the whole thing here.

Enjoy.

And happy new year.
- Tiny Little Rockets

More often than not, when I'm sent a Bandcamp link, I prepare for an ear-raping. However, Night Fruit have prove to be the exception to the rule. Instead of being aurally assaulted by lo-fi, d-beat garbage or some college students epic dubstep remix of "Party Rocking", I was pleasantly surprised by dreamy indie pop that whisked me away to mixed tapes I made back in high school.

Night Fruit are a female-fronted trio from Cambridge, MA playing quirky indie pop with some shoegazerish leanings. The band manage to blend pop sensibility with reverb and dissonance in a way that allows the listener to get lost in their songs but still have something to sing along with in their head hours later. The vocals are reminscent of a young Tonya Donnelly Easily the best thing I've ever heard on Bandcamp. The only downside to "Dark Horse" is that its only three songs long.

If you live near Boston, Night Fruit should be on your "bands I need to see ASAP in 2012" list. Any fan of indie rock, emo, or Brit pop would find something to like about "Dark Horse". It's available for download at whatever price you feel like naming at nightfruit.bandcamp.com

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Genre: Indie Rock - Shoegaze
Label: Four Forty Distro
Official Site: Click For Link
Similar Bands: My Bloody Valentine, Anne, Hum, The Cure, Lemuria, Moving Mountains, Juliana Hatfield, Belly, Throwing Muses, Rainer Maria, - Stereokiller.com

I mentioned the debut EP by Cambridge, MA trio Night Fruit way back in September 2010 and now over a year later they have released the follow up 'Dark Horse', a three track 7" which came out in early December, recorded and mixed by the band themselves it should firmly introduce them as ones to follow...

At almost six minutes the lead, title track "Dark Horse" is a gorgeous blend of shoegaze and dream pop with swirling, shimmering guitar melodies that rise and fall, driving drum rhythms and Amanda Dellevigne's identifiable vocals, it's an intricate and multi-layered melange of part anthemic rock and psychedelic, dreamy wonder. Similarly closing track "Bittersweet", a calm before the storm beast, a spiralling guitar-saturated ethereal glow progresses to gritty, alt-rock powering riffs with a wash of electronic noise, I can't help but fall for this band.

They have some local (to them) gigs up on their facebook page and a digital version of the single is available on a pay what you want basis from the bands bandcamp, as well as on 7" vinyl (limited to 300) for just $5 plus postage. Do check out their equally impressive debut EP 'Triangles' as well, available from the same place similarly on a pay what you like basis - an all round winner.
- Just Music That I Like

Night Fruit posted three tracks on bandcamp from a 7-inch record called “Dark Horse”. They’re a Boston-based trio made up of drummer Luke Sullivan, Jonathan Gill, and Amanda Dellevigne. This short and sweet 7-inch is a swirling blend of shoegaze and anthemic rock-outs like the nostalgic and pretty “Paper Thin”: “Will you help me out? / The city’s draggin’ me down / To get away / To find a cool escape / Wasn’t it always that way? / Or was it always that way?” Aren’t we all looking for a place to run to, be it a physical destination or in the mind? The chaotic closer “Bittersweet” has an epic feel to it despite being under three minutes long. It’s an auditory piece of fireworks, intricate and expertly constructed. Pounding drums build into sonic blasts of guitar. A guitar line spirals, convulses, agitates, and blends right back into a repeated melody. As wild as this track gets, the band finds a way to elegantly ease into an ending. The frenetic feel fades away into soft drums, light ambient guitar and a repeated vocal phrase. It’s a beautiful disintegration. This 7-inch follows on the heels of Night Fruit’s four-track demo “Triangles”. You can follow the band at facebook, bandcamp, and muxtape. – David D. Robbins Jr. - Their Bated Breath

Night Fruit posted three tracks on bandcamp from a 7-inch record called “Dark Horse”. They’re a Boston-based trio made up of drummer Luke Sullivan, Jonathan Gill, and Amanda Dellevigne. This short and sweet 7-inch is a swirling blend of shoegaze and anthemic rock-outs like the nostalgic and pretty “Paper Thin”: “Will you help me out? / The city’s draggin’ me down / To get away / To find a cool escape / Wasn’t it always that way? / Or was it always that way?” Aren’t we all looking for a place to run to, be it a physical destination or in the mind? The chaotic closer “Bittersweet” has an epic feel to it despite being under three minutes long. It’s an auditory piece of fireworks, intricate and expertly constructed. Pounding drums build into sonic blasts of guitar. A guitar line spirals, convulses, agitates, and blends right back into a repeated melody. As wild as this track gets, the band finds a way to elegantly ease into an ending. The frenetic feel fades away into soft drums, light ambient guitar and a repeated vocal phrase. It’s a beautiful disintegration. This 7-inch follows on the heels of Night Fruit’s four-track demo “Triangles”. You can follow the band at facebook, bandcamp, and muxtape. – David D. Robbins Jr. - Their Bated Breath

A long time ago, the only wise thing a very unwise person said was “Revolutionize your field and, short of that, convince others that is what you’re doing”, This is a rough paraphrase, of course; however, the point is Night Fruit don’t need to convince too hard.

On Dark Horse, their follow up to their debut Triangles EP, they blend a shoegaze dreaminess with sinister post-apocalyptic undertones, due to the otherworldy-ness of lead singer Amanda Dellevigne’s voice. It is a voice that rises and falls dreamy and distant and rides Jonathan Gill’s guitar like a stripper on a pole -- all hips and swinging around. Commanding is one word to use. The guitar is reverby, and how. Jon often looks like he’s play-acting rockstar when he’s on stage, but it all comes down to the fact that he loves to entertain. He’s a greater guitar player for it too; this man isn’t afraid to throw every iota of emotion into a set or onto a record. Luke Sullivan’s tight drumming betrays his disaffected demeanor; he’s having fun no matter how taciturn the expression on his face.

The title track undulates out of the gate with dreamy riffing from Gill’s end and builds from there on out with Dellevigne’s voice, that enchanting dreamscape voice. Paper Thin is more of a straight forward rock song that includes some lovely building and breaking down, the bridge for this song was my favorite on the album. Bittersweet finishes this offering with some poppy goodness, a great bouncy beat, and some sing-a-long quality lyrics. Overall, a great showing from this excellent gang of bandits.

Night Fruit shows have a tendency to be an awfully good time and you should check them out. These smooth operators can be seen in the near future on:
Jan 10 at TT the Bear's with Slowdim and You Can Be A Wesley
Feb 24 at O’Briens with Lymbyc Systym - Deli Magazine - New England

Before diving into a review of the band that played last Friday at the Pill (which I will, so keep reading, dammit), I must comment on the Pill itself. For years before I turned 21, I wondered what the Pill was and why it always took up a perfectly good bill on a Friday night at the Great Scott. After hearing a wealth of praise, I finally witnessed exactly how it lives up. If you’re hankering for something outside the top 40, something that you can dance to in an environment of likeminded awkwardness, somewhere where you can get a few picklebacks and a few beers for a reasonable price, the Pill is a pretty fuckin’ awesome time. DJ’s Ken and Michael V really do their homework, too. They spin pop that’s guilt-free, cutting-edge, and best of all, danceable. Not into a cab-fare to Cambridge? Line too long at the Model? Hit up the Pill on a Friday night, it’s truly a great event.

Now to last week’s feature band. Night Fruit played a beefy set to celebrate the release of their new 7”, Dark Horse. Last year’s Triangles gave a solid first sense of their synthy feel, but their new material shows a drive towards power-trio attitude. No tune was this more apparent than with the new release’s title track. “Dark Horse” finds an exciting balance between reverb-draped guitars and electronic layering. I’ve always had a hole in my heart for bands without bass players, but Night Fruit backs it up. Not only is there an impressive degree of successful multitasking between Amanda Dellevigne and Jonathan Gill, but drummer Luke Sullivan (who you may know from ton of other awesome Boston bands) brings enough energy to provide a massive base layer.

Dellevigne is a perfect presence for a front woman. Girl-fronted bands come a dime a dozen these days and sometimes it feels like a contest of eccentricity and hype. Dellevigne’s soft and contained croons let the songwriting speak for itself, and they share attention with the busy instrumentation that is tackled by herself and Gill. Their mixture of keys and strings is light and sophisticated; a perfect catch for the art gallery DIYers. “Paper Thin,” another selection from Dark Horse, was a hearty shuffle— not overbearing, but different and attention grabbing. Between selections from the new release and their older material, the band proved they have a valuable catalog that is pretty deep for a band still in it’s early stages.

Night Fruit was a delightful feature and an appropriate selection for the Pill at this point in the year. Many have great expectations for this trio in 2012, and after witnessing their set, I’m no different. Their vibe is starting to ween off of the popularly abused electronics that attracted many listeners in 2011. At this point in time, the fact that Night Fruit can achieve the sound they do sans-laptop is reassuring and optimistic. They do a lot with a little, which hopefully will take them far in the new year. - Allston Pudding

Ahoy Allston!

Don't post those Best of 2011 lists just yet. Although 2k11 is fast-approaching its inevitable demise, here's one last entry to wreak havoc on those early-filed year-end Best Ofs: NIGHT FRUIT's new Dark Horse 7-inch. I first fell in love with this noisy noir-pop trio when they dropped the Triangles demo, and am thrilled to have them join us for their record release tomorrow night at GS.

But don't take my word for it. The fine folks at Boston Band Crush just dropped this message a few minutes ago: [Night Fruit's] fuzzy, shoegaze noir pop is absolutely the perfect fit for the Pill stage... The band got much love when their demo hit the Boston streets last year, and this new effort confirms that the trio is absolutely worthy of every accolade they receive.

This one will be a doozy. Do join us,
xo Michael V

Dec. 9: Night Fruit
<<dark horse>> record release party @ the pill

NIGHT FRUIT know how to bookend a year. The trio began 2k11 on the cover of the Boston Phoenix in January as part of Michael's Class of 2011 spotlight, and now they close out the year with the 7-inch release party for new record Dark Horse.

The much-anticipated follow-up to 2010's sterling Triangles EP, Dark Horse continues Night Fruit's psychedelic dream-pop drone, crafting a tales of New England towns and the need to escape them on the strength of Amanda Dellevigne's hypnotic voice.

A band that first emerged from indie kids Hot Box and Left Hand Does, the members of Night Fruit also collaborated this year with Stereo Telescope and Ohio's Vanity Theft; but their own distinct sound remains true.

For his Class of 2011 feature, Michael wrote back in January: "Maybe that [Triangles] demo wasn't supposed to stick the way it did, but with its root gripped by notable "S"-ness (Swirlies, Slowdive, Swervedriver), the ambient, groggy, almost shoegazing dream-pop whirl of Night Fruit's guitar-buzzed sound became one of the freshest in the city... It'll be interesting to watch this infant band grow and develop their sound in 2011 - the results should be a hazy shade of spectacular." Hearing Dark Horse, it looks like he was right.

Pre-order the record now through Forty Four Distrobution, or pick it up this Friday when Night Fruit celebrate its release at Great Scott for another rousing drunken go-round at the pill.

As usual, resident good mixers DJ Ken + Michael V hold down the modern indie dance party, before and after the band.

Look sharp.
xothepill - The Pill Boston

I became a bonafide Night Fruit fan about 1 minute into a crowded Allston basement show back in January (RIP live music @ Wadzilla), which is how long it took to decide I'd be sticking around for the trio's entire set. And within a few minutes of getting home that night, despite severe sleepiness, I was online searching for recordings, discovering their 2010 "Triangles" EP (name-your-price download here). It captured the dreamy reverb-soaked pop I'd just witnessed, and while I made sure I saw them play live a couple more times this year, I've had a hankering for news of fresh studio action for awhile now.

Well, the new goods have arrived in the form of the "Dark Horse" 7-inch, which sees an official release tonight at esteemed Great Scott dance night The Pill. Just a few blocks from the very place I first saw 'em play. Here's track two of three, "Paper Thin"... - Bradley's Almanac

The local Internerds are aglow today with talk about Boston dream-pop trio Night Fruit's new single and the release show for it tomorrow night at Great Scott. The buzz is deserved, as the carefully sculpted and beautiful "Dark Horse" is an arresting piece of work. Spiraling and shimmering guitars and big vocal melodies from fronter Amanda Dellevigne make for a winning concoction of blissed, upbeat pop that gracefully decomposes in the song's final minute. A sure sign that the band is firing on all cylinders right now is that the B-sides are equally delicious, even if they employ the same alchemy; any of the tracks could be the lead number. "Paper Thin" succeeds on its strident rhythm and more buoyant, strong singing from Dellevigne, while "Bittersweet" uses a somewhat lighter touch in the verse to set off some squalling guitars in the breaks. Night Fruit previously released the EP Triangles in July 2010, a more gothic, Cocteau-inflected short stack -- highlighted by the tense closer "Lover" -- which you can snatch from Bandcamp for free right here. Night Fruit performs during The Pill dance night at Great Scott tomorrow night. You can stream the entire new single via the Bandcamp embed below, and also purchase the collection at the same link. Pre-orders shipped today, but we bet you all the fake Gingriches you've got that you can get your Romneys on a hard copy tomorrow. Here's the Facebook event page for the show. - Clicky Clicky Music Blog

Ah, the Pill, what stories could your checkered dance floor tell if given the chance? There’s a reason this weekly party has been going for over 14 years – because they do everything right. Sometimes it’s an all night dance party with Ken and Michael V spinning cutting edge Britpop, indie and electro; other weeks it’s a sweaty rock ‘n roll show followed by an all night dance party. They do whatever they feel like, they’re not starting with a band and building a party around their show, they start with the party and find a band that fits.

This week, that band is Night Fruit. Their fuzzy, shoegaze noir pop is absolutely the perfect fit for the Pill stage, and if that wasn’t reason enough, they’ll be using the night to celebrate the release of their latest effort, a glorious 7” EP titled Dark Horse. The band got much love when their demo hit the Boston streets last year, and this new effort confirms that the trio is absolutely worthy of every accolade they receive. They’re still shaping up their style and forming their sound, but they’re not taking baby steps; when all is said and done, they’re going to leave their mark on this place. - BostonBandCrush.org

Night Fruit may be relatively new to the scene, but the noise-smart Cambridge trio aren’t lacking in local-rock pedigree. Guitarists Amanda Dellevigne and Jonathan Gill built buzz in the gone-too-soon ’90s-flavored trio Hot Box while drummer Luke Sullivan was cavorting around town with alt-rock-minded Left Hand Does. Now, they’re taking their former bands’ multilayered melodies and post-rock riffage and throwing them through the experimental grinder. The almost-menacing “Sea Blood” is a magnetic slow burn of neo-shoegaze, a calm-before-the-storm dreampop firefly that’s chilling in its deceptive reach. Night Fruit’s debut EP is expected around early fall, and the band are performing this Friday (July 23) at the House of Blues’ underappreciated free front-room local-music series with Streight Angular. In the meantime, grab the “Sea Blood” MP3 below. - Boston Phoenix

My fascination with dream pop — a genre characterized by washy guitars and airy, indistinct vocals — lies in its effects when done right: a sense of vague translocation and a fleeting feeling of transcendence. Cambridge's latest submission for this drony niche, Night Fruit, have not yet hit that plane (they've existed for just seven months), but what they do have speaks to something greater, albeit grittier.

Far from the standard fare of dank basements and Allston practice spaces, the trio — who come to T.T. the Bear's on Saturday — recently invited me into their Cambridge living room to hear a few songs and talk. They set up in the middle of the room bombarded by eight separate studio lights hung at opposing angles. Acting as luminous concussions, these treated the room with an æthereal glow that fit the band's sound, the lights' shimmer set against the guitar's shoegazy warbles, the glaring blaze against Amanda Dellevigne's sinuous pop melodies and "dreams of forest fires." If that doesn't convey a proper sense of dreamy haze, let's just say this was stepping into outer space.

Night Fruit bear resemblance to their local forebears in Swirlies, but with more of a Slowdive subtexture and a Swervedriver brashness. Their four-song Triangles demo moves from the cloud-dipped synth tones of "Sea Blood" through the angular guitar patterns of the two middle tracks to the guitar-saturated anthem "Lover." Dellevigne's vocals are a type of hypnotic you might associate with Medusa. The band's soundscape is based equally on Dellevigne's song sketches and their collaborative practice methods. "I'll usually have vocal melodies that magically fit over things we've done already," she explains. "We usually write a bunch of parts, then decide where they go."

Night Fruit have been a band only since February, but they have a storied (local) past together and apart. Dellevigne started Hot Box with a former professor at Boston College and later sought another member via Craigslist. The internet led them to guitarist Jon Gill, who had recently moved from New York and was in search of a band.

"I found a bunch of postings that were awful, usually like 'metal drummer wanted,' or 'we need a diva who knows how to swing,' " says Gill. "But theirs just said, 'HOT BOX,' and I said, 'Sweet.' "

Hot Box's bubble burst in 2008, at the beginning of the recession, when the members all lost their jobs and the band had to break up. Dellevigne moved to Berlin, later returning to Boston, the same job, almost the same band, and an apartment a block away from her former home. Gill stuck around Boston; the other two members moved west.

"It's strange to think about, but we actually were hit by the economic downturn," says Gill. "But then we all came back and found Luke [Sullivan] and started again." Sullivan moonlights as Night Fruit's drummer when he's not playing guitar in Left Hand Does. He spent the two previous years as a sound engineer recording bands, and he did the Night Fruit demo in the band's practice space.

"Jon and I write a lot differently together, and we were interested in making Night Fruit a lot heavier and a bit uneasy," says Dellevigne. "Luke added a lot of depth to the recordings with extra ambient vocals and effects."

Whether it's Sullivan's influence or a matter of personal growth, Triangles has a darkness that was missing from Hot Box. "Lover" in particular conveys a desperation that might be a point of departure. It's about running away, leaving, and yet trying to capture something or someone, all at the same time. Like some lost '60s film noir. Dream pop done right.

NIGHT FRUIT + FILM SCHOOL + THE DEPRECIATION GUILD + STATIC OF THE GODS | T.T. the Bear's Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | October 2 at 9 pm | 18+ | $12 | 617.492.0082 or ttthebears.com - Boston Phoenix

I like getting nice surprises in my inbox, this is one such surprise. Opened just before I set off for Berlin and was on constant repeat on the way there...

Night Fruit are a new band from Cambridge, US. They released their first EP "Triangles" in August and you can download it for free from the band's link.

It's more good shoegaze! "Lover" and indie rock anthem with crashing drums and furious guitars and the more dreamy "Sea Blood" are favourites but all four tracks offer great promise and I'm looking forward to what comes next. - Just Music That I Like

I know that today’s weather forecast calls for torrential, apocalyptic rains but I hear it’s going to be OK by tomorrow. Which is a good thing for the members of Film School, The Depreciation Guild, Static of the Gods (featuring my One Night Bandmate Jen Johnson - hi Jen!) and today’s featured superstars - Night Fruit. Why, do you ask? Because these four bands are playing tomorrow at T.T. The Bears, and you know how much carrying gear sucks, right? Well it sucks tenfold in the rain. We are superpsyched about Night Fruit - and not just because of their cover art, which I have titled “The Big Skinnydipper” (get it?? get it??) Night Fruit features our friend and CDOS alumnus Amanda Dellevigne. Her new project is no break in excellence, just find yourself the new Night Fruit disc and find out why. Hey, maybe you can pick one up tomorrow!

Night Fruit - “Lover”
[Download it!]

For some untold reason, sunglasses are ineffably seen as an instrument of the cool. If you want to make something inexplicably cooler, simply add sunglasses. If a song can wear sunglasses, then you can be sure that Night Fruit’s new “Lover” has shown up wearing the deepest darkest shades available, and it is not going to remove them. The atmosphere of this song is one of turmoil - the motion is evident in the churning guitar part.

While the instruments provide the motion to this song’s ocean, the siren call that rises above the fray is the vocal of a slightly distorted Amanda Dellevigne. Her clarion call is powerful and steady, holding out long notes over the frenetic undertow of this track’s rhythm. While the reasonably-paced tempo is a straight-ahead one, the band throws in a few tasty accents every so often, ostensibly to keep things (more) interesting.

The coolness of this song lays in its utter refusal to compromise its pace or heading. “Lover” stays fast and stylish from start to finish. While the song stays remarkably within its own zone, it still manages to be dynamic. The song owes this success to the melody of the vocal - it keeps in the appropriate neighborhoods, but zigs and zags every so often. Isn’t that what you would expect from a “Lover?”
- Boston Band Crush