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- Date Released: January 1, 2007
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Young Baby Records / Audio Bee
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As evidenced by his debut Nighttiming Jason Schwartzman's Coconut Records is in the grand tradition of one-man band pop albums, a largely solitary affair in the spirit of Todd Rundgren, Stevie Wonder, and Prince that doesn't necessarily sound like any of those rockers yet shares a similar sense of eccentricity and, more importantly, melodicism. Schwartzman's gift for a persuasive hook is what ties Nighttiming together when it teeters between incandescent pop and halting introspection, but that flittering incoherence is its charm: Nighttiming has both sides of the one-man band mad genius, the pop maverick and the sensitive diarist spilling his soul onto the page. When things gets slower, Schwartzman can sound like a less haunted Elliott Smith, capturing a shimmering gorgeous sadness but never quite sliding deeply into sullenness, but he shows more imagination when he swaps an acoustic for an electric guitar or a piano, knocking out terrific power pop like "Back to You," where the guitars are loud enough to earn the cheekily overdubbed applause that concludes the song. Schwartzman also reveals a knack for re-creating certain '70s sounds -- "West Coast" floats on a warm melancholy evoking latter-day Beach Boys, "Nighttiming" cleverly reworks disco-rock, "Minding My Own Business" has the big, open spaces of ELO -- but these aren't exercises in clever hipster revivalism, there's a real joy in these songs, helping to buoy Nighttiming through its melancholy moments and indicating the depth and skill Schwartzman has a pop songwriter.
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This Old Machine |
2:01 |
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| 02. | |
West Coast |
3:32 |
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| 03. | |
Back to You |
4:39 |
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| 04. | |
Summer Day |
2:07 |
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Nighttiming |
2:50 |
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Minding My Own Business |
2:19 |
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| 07. | |
Slowly |
4:04 |
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| 08. | |
Mama |
1:33 |
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| 09. | |
The Thanks I Get |
2:24 |
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| 10. | |
Its Not You Its Me |
2:42 |
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| 11. | |
Easy Girl |
2:17 |
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| 12. | |
Ask Her to Dance |
2:55 |
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12 Total Tracks, 33:23 Total Length
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Credits
- Mitchell Froom - A&R // Brendan O'Brien - Mixing // Brandon Boyd - Whistle (Human) // Jason Schwartzman - Vocals // Jason Schwartzman - Instrumentation // Sam Farrar - Guitar // Jennifer Furches - Violin // Jennifer Furches - Vocals // Benjamin Einziger - Vocals (Background) // Benjamin Einziger - Choir, Chorus // Ben Kenney - Bass // Tom Syrowski - Mixing Assistant // Roman Coppola - Cover Photo // Zooey Deschanel - Vocals // Michael Einziger - Producer // Michael Einziger - Engineer // Robert Schwartzman - Vocals // Kirsten Dunst - Vocals
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