Lullabies & Sleepless Nights (Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 2)

Lullabies & Sleepless Nights (Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 2) is the third studio album by King Never founder Matt McCabe, and a return to form of his solo ambient music guitar looping explorations. Released by Marathon Records on January 1, 2007.[1]

Lullabies & Sleepless Nights (Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 2)
Studio album by
King Never
ReleasedJanuary 1, 2007
RecordedFinley Sound, Northern CA
Genreelectronic ambient music
Length43:04
LabelMarathon Records
King Never chronology
Orphans, Misfits & Fragments
(2004)		 Lullabies & Sleepless Nights (Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 2)
(2007)		 Possibilities
(2010)

Background

After working with collaborators and venturing into the more progressive rock feel of 2004's Orphans, Misfits & Fragments, on the 10 year anniversary of Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 1, with a title inspired by his children, McCabe again solos live with no overdubbing to release this sequel effort.

Reception

AmbientMusicGuide.com said about the release: "I don't know whether "purist" is the word but Californian ambient guitarist King Never takes pride in choosing the riskier path of recording his tracks live, with no further editing or overdubs. With his electric guitar, effects and loop machines he creates a seductive and surprisingly broad palate of nocturnal sounds on Lullabies And Sleepless Nights. It's beatless and mostly gentle, shifting between tonal and slightly dissonant. There's the odd burst of jagged distortion just in case, I presume, you've nodded off too early. This is often impressive and eerily beautiful stuff and not just for guitar fans by any means. Rating 3.5/5." [2]

Track listing

[3]

  1. Some Kind of Beginning – 0:28
  2. First Light – 4:14
  3. Beautifully Broken – 3:18
  4. The Quiet Hour – 6:52
  5. Interrupted – 1:24
  6. The End of Never – 4:26
  7. Things to Come – 2:54
  8. Chaos of Day Fades To Night – 5:34
  9. Almost Asleep – 4:24
  10. Night of A Thousand Worries – 9:30

Production notes

[3]

Released January 1, 2007.
Special thanks to John Aycock at Voodoo Lab.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Matt McCabe at Finley Sound, somewhere in Northern California, USA.
Original artwork “Airplanes” by Weston D. McCabe

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References
  1. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kingnever3
  2. "A Guide to Essential Ambient & Downtempo Albums Mach/April 2007". www.ambientmusicguide.com via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  3. Lullabies & Sleepless Nights (Ambient Guitar Noise: Volume 2) (CD booklet). King Never. Marathon Records. 2007.CS1 maint: others (link)
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