The Buttertones 8211 Midnight in a Moonless Dream LP

On White Vinyl! Midnight was made in two flash sessions at Long Beach\’s Jazzcats studio withGravedigging producer Jonny Bell, whose genre-smashing record collectionand appetite for experimentation made for a perfect match. (He\’s really aguru, they say.) What was supposed to be a six song EP during the summer of2017 bloomed into a full-length by the end of that December. Midnight was likea trust fall, the band says leap of faith after leap of faith, cut to tape as ithappened by a tight and tour-tested band. On this album, they\’d decided,everything would be new not just new sounds, like their first-ever stringsection, but new ways of working together and writing together. They workedon trust and instinct, by feeling instead of thinking. If it worked, they\’d keep it,and if it didn\’t, they\’d burn it and move on. Gravedigging played like thesoundtrack to a good heist movie, but Midnight was like the true story itself aperfect and intricate crime, executed by a crew of professionals under coverof night.