Members-Go-Free: Nighttime + Special Guests

Nighttime rolls the cosmic dice and lands on her most expansive album to date.

Time is malleable in the hands of cosmic American folk band Nighttime. Early recordings could be mistaken for choral hymns from the Lomax archives, while 2023’s Keeper is the Heart—lauded by Bandcamp as Best New Music—feels like a lost psychedelic gem of the 1960s, invoking the spirits of Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tenega.

On Nighttime’s forthcoming record, Looking Glass, the band that began as a solo recording project has evolved to feature contributions by over twenty musicians, including Sam Evian, Roy Montgomery, and collaborators of Pearl and the Oysters, Marina Allen, Florist, Weyes Blood, and Aldous Harding—their work woven into a single silken web coalesced around shimmering harp, beatific trumpets, rolling guitar, and the guiding thread of Eva Louise Goodman’s rich, singular voice.

“The energy of the process becomes a part of the result.” Goodman says. “My first records were a lot about being alone and experimenting with sound. More and more, I find inspiration comes from bringing other people into the project… I want it to be fun.”