Music Review // Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature "Night is Young"

 

What I like most perhaps about the song "Night is Young" is that I can imagine it being in several different scenarios.  This type of rock n roll by Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature has those garage and blues elements, which bring in keys that make it feel like gospel.  We are, after all, here to worship at the sound of music whether or not it be holy.  It's just a lot of fun and as someone who was raised as a Baptist it does kind of flow along with those lines.

At the same time I can imagine Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature being the type of band that plays in a bar and not a good bar.  I imagine all of the things that pre-date the year 2000 which can't really happen in bars any more.  I think of films like "Road House" and how the band would just keep playing even though this giant brawl would break out across the bar with people smashing those glass beer mugs over each other's head and throwing bar stools at no one in particular. 

But what is this song about?  The chorus says it all really: "You gotta go out when the night is young".  Haven't you ever heard someone who was opposed to going back home plead with someone to stay out because the night was still young?  I feel like that could've happened in a movie like "Swingers", but this still brings forth those vibes of embracing your calling, the seizing of the day (or night if you will) where it's just about living life to its fullest and not going home when there is still night to be had (which can be taken literally and in a sense of how you see fit for whatever your version of night is)

To some more abstract sort of way, I can definitely imagine this song in a vampire way because in theory vampires come out at night, but I do also enjoy that Thomas Duxbury and New Mother Nature keep the same spirit in this video as they did in "Already Dead" with all of the televisions around them and that type of friction of having the picture skip you only get from older televisions as well.  Regardless of the many ways which I might hear this song being a part of something bigger, the artists seem to know what that something bigger is and that's special.