Nights Out
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Nights In
- A 6-track bonus CD was released alongside the album and was available if the album was purchased in Rough TradeRough Trade ShopRough Trade are two independent record shops based in London, UK.The first Rough Trade shop was opened in 1976 by Geoff Travis in the Portobello Road district of west London. In 1978 the shop spawned the famous Rough Trade Records, which was to go on to be home to bands from The Smiths to The...
stores or in the Rough Trade Album Club. The CD contains:
Singles and EPs
So far four singles/EPs from Nights Out have been released: Radio Ladio - EP, My Heart Rate Rapid - EP, Holiday - Single and Heartbreaker.Radio Ladio, released on 12 November 2007, the accompanying video by Daniel Breteton features Joseph, Oscar and Gabriel with their skin painted blues and greens, playing kiddie-like pianos that have incorrect keys while they lust after an unobtainable woman.
My Heart Rate Rapid, released on 7 April 2008, featured remixes from Primary 1 and Maton while the video directed by Dandi Wind
Dandi Wind
Dandi Wind is a post-industrial band created in Vancouver, Canada in 2003. The band consisted of duo Dandilion Wind Opaine and Szam Findlay. Opaine went on to form the disco band Fan Death...
featured zentai
Zentai
Zentai is a term for skin-tight garments that cover the entire body. The word is a contraction of zenshin taitsu...
-suited women dancing in front of a backdrop of lava flows, eruptions fire, toy trains and psychedelic animations.
Holiday was first released as a single on 7 July 2008, along with a video by Daniel Bereton. It features the band playing in a studio with weird objects such as a warped mirror, a colored lilo and many men walking through, holding such objects entering and leaving the shot. Most notably the band all wear sunglasses with the word Holiday written on the lens.
Holiday was jointly released in France with Heartbreaker on 1 August 2008 with remixes by other artists.
Heartbreaker is the fourth song, released on 1 September 2008 and features the Heartbreaker - EP and Heartbreaker (Dark Disco Remixes) - EP. The video was released on an enhanced version of Nights Out and shows Oscar Cash (apparently having been dumped by a girl) with his friends in their car going to a arcade
Video arcade
An amusement arcade or video arcade is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers , or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables...
, a fair and the beach, among others.
A Thing For Me is the fifth single and the first released subsequent to the release of Nights Out. The video features the band and several girls and karaoke
Karaoke
is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
words on them with the rolling ball hitting them on the head as it is sung along. It also features cutaways to a projector slideshow with speech bubbles featuring the lyrics (even though some are just words that sound alike).
The song was recently remixed by French artist Breakbot (on Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records
Ed Banger Records is a French electronic music record label run by Pedro Winter. It was founded in 2002 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. The label is home to French electronic acts Justice, SebastiAn, Daft Punk, Cassius, Uffie, Krazy Baldhead, DJ Mehdi, Mr Oizo, Mr...
).