MORPHINE - The Night (2023 Reissue w/ 20 Page Booklet) - 2LP (45rpm) - 180g Purplish Hue Vinyl

2LP - Limited Edition 180g Purplish Hue Vinyl cut at 45rpm and housed in a deluxe Gatefold Sleeve. Remastered from the original tapes by Pete Weiss. First time on vinyl. Includes 20-page booklet, featuring rare and never-before-seen images from the band’s archives.

Modern Classic Recordings, an imprint of Light in the Attic Records, proudly announce the deluxe vinyl reissue of Morphine’s final album: The Night (2000), marking the very first availability on vinyl.

The album has been lovingly remastered by Pete Weiss at Boston’s Jade Cow Music, with lacquers cut by John Golden. The 2xLP, 45-RPM edition of The Night (featuring “Rope on Fire,” “Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer,” and “The Night,”) is available on orange translucent or purplish hue vinyl.

Rounding out the package is a 20-page booklet, featuring rare and never-before-seen images from the band’s archives, including photos by Lana Z. Caplan and Danny Clinch, artifacts from Morphine’s career, and unseen art by the band’s late frontman, Mark Sandman. A major highlight of both packages are the insightful new liner notes by Ryan H. Walsh—a Boston-based journalist, musician, visual artist, and author of the acclaimed 2018 book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968. Walsh’s notes include a handful of new interviews detailing the band’s career, including one of the final interviews with Morphine drummer Billy Conway, who sadly passed away in 2021 following a battle with cancer. Both albums are housed in deluxe gatefold jackets, featuring gorgeous art direction and design by Darryl Norsen at D. Norsen Design, also of Boston.

Dedicated to the memories of Sandman and late drummer Billy Conway, both albums were produced with the full support of Morphine’s surviving members (drummer Jerome Deupree and saxophonist Dana Colley), as well as the band’s friends, family members, and collaborators—many of whom shared their memories with Walsh. 

Tracklist:

1. The Night
2. So Many Ways
3. Souvenir
4. Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer
5. Like A Mirror
6. A Good Woman Is Hard To Find
7. Rope On Fire
8. I'm Yours, You're Mine
9. The Way We Met
10. Slow Numbers
11. Take Me With You