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Night Songs II
Pop · 2020 · 12 tracks · 41m

Night Songs II

Barry Manilow

A radical departure into minimalism. Just a man and his piano, stripping Great American Songbook standards down to their bare, late-night emotional bones.

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It's Barry Manilow at a piano in a dark room at 3 AM, and it's surprisingly heartbreaking.

A quiet, shadowy meditation on love and aging that feels like a private conversation.

Night Songs II · vs · Barry Manilow
Contemplative+4.0σ

Contemplative saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 41m
01
Everything Happens to Me
3:50
02
I’m Old Fashioned
2:37
03
My Funny Valentine
2:45
04
I Had the Craziest Dream
3:30
05
She Was Too Good to Me
3:50
06
Meditation
4:20
07
Lush Life
3:27
08
Isn’t It a Pity
4:05
09
Moonlight Becomes You
3:28
10
Little Girl Blue
3:17
11
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
2:54
12
We’ll Be Together Again
3:40
Moments Worth Waiting For
The stark vulnerability of the piano introduction to Lush Life, eschewing the typical orchestral swell for a lonely, wandering melody.
A rare moment of rhythmic lift during Meditation where the vocal phrasing adopts a subtle, bossa-nova-inflected swing.
The way the final notes of We'll Be Together Again hang in the air, recorded so closely you can hear the piano pedal release.
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