LateNightTales: Jon Hopkins

Electronic · 2014 · 21 tracks

LateNightTales: Jon Hopkins

A masterfully sequenced descent into the quiet hours, blending fragile modern classical, dusty electronics, and a hauntingly skeletal Yeasayer cover.

September 15, 2014 · LateNightTales

This is not merely a collection of songs but a singular, breathing organism designed for the hours when the world stops making noise. Jon Hopkins applies his signature 'biological' approach to curation, selecting tracks that feel less like digital files and more like physical objects: the creak of a piano stool, the hiss of a tape loop, and the distant hum of a city at 3 AM. It is an album that demands stillness, rewarding the listener with a profound sense of intimacy and spatial depth.

Tracklist · 21 Tracks

01

Sleepers Beat Theme

4:37

01

Before Tigers (Gold Panda remix)

5:23

02

Hold Me Down

7:18

03

Yr Love

4:42

04

Verbena Tea

4:24

05

More

8:56

06

I Am Daylights

3:05

07

Babe

2:52

08

After Dawn

4:31

09

I Remember

4:21

10

Hey Maggy

4:59

11

Lady Divine

5:12

12

Gillie Amma I Love You

5:47

13

Connjur

4:37

14

And It’s Alright (Nils Frahm remix)

4:34

15

Missing Photos

2:02

16

Down to the Sound

2:35

17

Requiem for the Static King 1

2:46

18

Emancipation

2:35

19

I Remember

3:28

20

LateNightTales (continuous mix)

72:18

Moments Worth Listening For

The transition from Darkstar’s Hold Me Down into the glitchy, organic percussion of Teebs’ Bernadette

Jon Hopkins’ own cover of Yeasayer’s I Remember, where the original’s psych-pop is stripped back to a haunting, skeletal piano ballad

The moment Nils Frahm’s More introduces a dusty, mechanical intimacy that feels like someone breathing right next to the microphone

The closing spoken word piece by Rick Holland, where the music fades to a near-silence, leaving only the weight of the words

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