The Night (Morphine album)

Jerome Deupree, the band's original drummer, who had previously quit due to health problems, rejoined and played alongside Billy Conway, according to credits listed in the CD booklet.^[5] The Night was thus Morphine's first album recorded as a quartet rather than a trio.^[6][7]

The band recorded the album over two years^[7] in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home studio of singer-bassist Mark Sandman.^[3][8]

The recording sessions were completed shortly before Sandman's sudden July 1999 death. Sandman and saxophonist Dana Colley oversaw the final mixing process.^[9]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Robert Christgau	[11]
Des Moines Register	[12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Los Angeles Times	[13]
Orlando Sentinel	[14]
Pitchfork Media	5.7/10[15]
Rolling Stone	[16]
Spin	8/10[17]

The Pitch wrote that "it’s not a romantic exaggeration to say that this album is the trio’s most sensuous, satisfying recording, finally delivering on the diverting-but-two-dimensional original notion of what Sandman termed 'low rock' ... The Night is the first time in ages a posthumous release has made noise from beyond the grave that doesn’t sound like a cash register."^[18] Trouser Press wrote that "the tone may be dour due to the singer’s sudden death, but the music is the most fully realized and finely textured Morphine ever mustered."^[9] Exclaim! called the album "a slow, grinding burlesque that hovers tentatively between testifying to above and wallowing down below."^[19]

All songs written by Mark Sandman.

1. "The Night" – 4:50
2. "So Many Ways" – 4:01
3. "Souvenir" – 4:40
4. "Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer" – 5:44
5. "Like a Mirror" – 5:26
6. "A Good Woman Is Hard to Find" – 4:14
7. "Rope on Fire" – 5:36
8. "I'm Yours, You're Mine" – 3:46
9. "The Way We Met" – 2:59
10. "Slow Numbers" – 3:58
11. "Take Me with You" – 4:54