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01. Nick Malkin - Intro / Exchange
02. Nick Malkin - Sixth Street Conversation
03. Nick Malkin - Through A Rain-Streaked Window
04. Nick Malkin - Secondhand Identity
05. Nick Malkin - Into the Light '93
06. Nick Malkin - Some KJAZZ Eternity
07. Nick Malkin - Estacionamiento Privado
08. Nick Malkin - Perfect Terminal
09. Nick Malkin - View From Two Perspectives
ARTIST
TITLE
A Typical Night in the Pit
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SODA 004LP SODA 004LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/24/2020

A Typical Night in the Pit is a collection of new music by Los Angeles' Nick Malkin. It is an album that finds the artist absorbed in the density and chaos of the urban complex. It is unquestionably an "LA album", but not the LA of hi-fi listening bars and twinkling, Instagram-ready new age. Rather, Malkin navigates something more akin to the LA found in the films of Robert Altman or Alan Rudolph -- overheated, tense, hazy, frayed -- with blue-lit, nocturnal compositions that at times recall Mark Isham's noirish scores for those subversive (anti-)Hollywood pictures. Enlisting a revolving cast of LA experimentalists, Malkin has assembled a record that is as chameleonic as it is cohesive, offering up vignettes ranging from the skewed MIDI-jazz of "Sixth Street Conversation" to the skulking menace of "Estacionamiento Privado", before giving way to the wide-eyed, cloudy closer "View From Two Perspectives". C'mon, let's go in here and get outta this heat. Artwork by Alex McCullough and Niall Wynne Lewis. Malkin released as Afterhours on Not Not Fun and is part of the LA Vampires. A Typical Night in the Pit follows Malkin's tape on Geographic North (2018). Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. First edition of 300 copies; artwork with gloss laminate finish.