Last Night Something Happened is the debut album from Monster Movie. Written, performed and produced by Christian Savill & Sean Hewson, it is a landmark follow-up to their self-titled debut EP from 2001.
The album, recorded between March and August 2001 at The White House studio in Weston-Super-Mare with Martin Nichols engineering (also the birthplace of their debut EP as well as Slowdive's Souvlaki), shows a move away from the layered guitars and strong vocals of the EP to a more somber, subdued and warm sound. Here the vocals are more often layered with Martin Wheeler & Louise Hewson, adding their vocals to those of the band, to create a ghostly, disembodied effect. The instrumentation is more varied here as well, with cheap keyboards and acoustic guitars mixing with radios, feedback & broken effects pedals to create a warm hum.
Monster Movie are known to be collectively fond of Grandaddy, Air, Yo La Tengo & the Super Furry Animals. They are also more likely to be influenced by their intense and occasionally psychotic dislike of most other rock music.
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