The Night Is Ours

About The Night Is Ours

The Night Is Ours is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Youth Group, released in Australia in June 2008 and in the US in April 2009. The album features guest musician Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, who mixed four tracks and also provided additional guitar and backing vocals. The band recorded the album in a near-derelict 1920s mess hall on Sydney Harbour, which they had rented from the local council at a rate cheap enough to allow them to take their time to develop the songs. Songwriter Toby Martin said the songs were only basic sketches in his head when the group entered the makeshift studio, with the idea being that the whole band would workshop the songs together. "We were very conscious of not losing spontaneity on this album," Martin told the Sunday Herald Sun. "Even though we did a lot of overdubs, we spent a long time on this record because we didn't want to demo the songs first. We wanted to write and arrange the songs in the studio, so recording the album would be capturing the moment of creation rather than capturing the moment of recreation. So we had roughly a week per song—I normally had the lyrics and a bit of a rough idea, or Cameron would have a riff, and by the end of the week we would be putting it down." more »