Night Crickets – How It Ends (?) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

On How It Ends (?), slinky melodies snake through nocturnal atmospherics, drawing you into a world built on poetic, painterly lyricism. Night Crickets, a long-distance groove affair that materialized during the drawn-out days of lockdown, has emerged once again to soundtrack our waking dreams.

David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and multi-instrumentalist Darwin Meiners spearhead a loose collective of like-minded creative souls whom, through sheer tenacity and a burning desire to collaborate and create, transcend the restrictions of space and time. Audio files shared from Los Angeles to Milwaukee, from London to the San Francisco Bay, and the ghosts of Candlestick Park shimmer through the fog, coalescing in a glorious ‘gesamtkunstwerk’ that draws from the past, the present and the imagined future.

Declaring Bauhaus, Love And Rockets, and Violent Femmes iconic, foundational bands in the history of alternative music would receive little pushback from those in the know. San Francisco born artist Darwin Meiners is a fan of all three. A chance meeting with David J grew into a friendship, and Darwin not only became a bandmate, but his manager. After reaching out to Victor DeLorenzo through e-mail, Darwin met the Violent Femmes drummer after their set at Coachella. Soon, after the three collaborated on Darwin’s 2014 release Souvenir.

Tracklist:
1-1. Night Crickets – Red Mist White Knuckles (03:08)
1-2. Night Crickets – The Story of War (04:00)
1-3. Night Crickets – Should Be Heaven (03:28)
1-4. Night Crickets – Don’t Be Afraid (03:36)
1-5. Night Crickets – Where’s The One? (03:17)
1-6. Night Crickets – Like An Avalanche (03:26)
1-7. Night Crickets – I Am Dead (03:36)
1-8. Night Crickets – What Is This Love? (02:13)
1-9. Night Crickets – Sunflowers and Starlight (03:50)
1-10. Night Crickets – The World I See Is Not The World I Want (03:31)