Lurkers by The Night Bench

This is the second official installment in my unconscious attempt to fall even further between the cracks of genres. My quest to utilize elements of my favorite kinds of music, from dance music and hip hop, to death metal, industrial noise, and pop music, everyone one of those early Trance Syndicate recordings, turning them upside down and filtering them through abandoned train yards and forgotten homesteads, through the fresh smell of Rustoleum at 3 AM and the crack of a forgotten snare sample stolen from the depths of an old VHS tape.
Nighttime, aka “the wee hours” were when these tracks were summoned and honed. They aren’t meant for the club, they won’t get you dancing, but they should, if I’ve done my job right, make certain parts of your brain light up and sparkle green with satisfaction.
The only reason I make music is because there are songs I want to hear, album cycles I want to experience, that no one has made yet. So rather than sit around and wait for someone to do it, I opted to do it myself. These songs were tailor made for my brain, and since there is nothing special or unique about me or my brain, I’m hoping they’ll work for others as well. Yes, this is niche music, it will never achieve what any sane person would consider “popularity,” but it fills a void in the sonic landscape that we call music..
It lurks around the shadows of more easily-defined genres, watching, taking bits from this and that, and it culminates in a junkyard version of dance music… dance music for people who understand what dancing is, but don’t know how to do it. It’s a soundtrack those pleasantly lonely, late night walks through dis-used alleyways and quiet neighborhoods, checking out what the graffiti artists have to say with their esoteric characters, or glancing through an open window, in to a well lit room, in a non-creepy way as you walk by, looking at how others choose to decorate and live in this thing called life.
These are songs for the introverts, for the comfortably numb, for those that actually listen to music. It’s not for the “shuffle everything” crew, for people who music only serves as background filler. This is for active listening, not for passive listening. There are no singles here, and everything was sequenced very specifically to soundtrack a story of the night.
I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it. Cheers!
-TNB

Making music for those late night walks through a sleeping city. Preferred means of listening: A giant pair of headphones that you can seal yourself inside of, while wearing smaller, yet still giant 70s-style headphones, with ear buds nestled inside. Listening to any kind of music via laptop speakers is for chumps.
Thanks for listening!
Love,
The NB

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