Night Crickets, a new band made up of former Bauhaus member David J, Violent Femmes’ Victor DeLorenzo and multi-instrumentalist Darwin Meiners, have announced that their debut album A Free Society is now available on vinyl, while a new video for single The Unreliable Narrator has just been released.
“There’s a lot of analogue warmth to this album which will only be emphasised all the more on vinyl” said David J. “Vinyl was the format that I initially listened to music on when I was a kid and when it first became so important to me. So there is a degree of nostalgia there but what transcends that is the enveloping warm, rich quality of the sound.”
The LP edition will also have different artwork unique to the edition.
“The vinyl art utilises a painting by our friend, the very brilliant Mark Gleason,” J continued. “It features a flaming billboard which is such a loaded and arresting image. To me, it is suggestive of the idea of a free society being one that lives outside of the dictates of commercial manipulation and rampant consumerism. We discovered this image after the artwork for the CD was done but then agreed that it would work to use two different covers to distinguish the different formats.”
New single The Unreliable Narrator features a lead vocal by J and the narration of British actor Marc Warren (Band of Brothers, The Vice, Mad Dogs).
"When I was working the track, Marc happened to text me about something quite unrelated," said J. "I had the spontaneous idea of asking him to record himself saying the title of the song as I could imagine his rather compelling voice on the track. I did not tell him what my request was for. He immediately recorded three takes on his phone which were then flown in right away. It worked!"
You can watch the video for The Unreliable Narrator below.