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NIGHTMUSIC (2021)

by Sure Jan

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1.
lyrics: if i’m not here, leave a message i’ll get back as soon as i can it takes time to process all that’s being thrown at all my weakness i hope you’re out there for me stop and listen, i’ve written it down get the message, i can’t see you now do i want to? who is coming back? are you brand new? or am i just a fool? i hope you’re out there for me.
2.
lyrics: goodnight my beautiful just being with you is so beautiful and tearing away from your arms is not easy to do goodnight my wonderful goodnight my wonderful there’s nobody who is so wonderful each moment with you is like living a dream come true so hold me close to you parting is such sweet sorrow your love is all i have to waken for tomorrow goodnight my beautiful the night will be lonely but beautiful when i’m alone with wonderful dreams of you
3.
lyrics: what was i thinking last night? things got a little out of hand twenty-five shots on my hand i saw the devil last night shaking hands with the disease i acted stupid last night and let it get ahold of me i got high a couple times and i saw god a couple times and i felt love a couple times man but what was i thinking that time? don’t you remember that time you took of advantage of me by the books you’d go away won’t let you get ahold of me i got high a couple times and i saw god a couple times and i felt love a couple times man but what was i thinking that time? remember when we were forever when we were better than the whole world, remember when remember when i couldn’t leave remember when you hated me remember when you hurt me remember when? i got high a couple times and i saw god a couple times and i felt love a couple times man but what was i thinking that time?
4.
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lyrics: watching the pink sky, change to a blue sky sunrise, vacation she longs for the sky see her in colors, visions of wonder light so much brighter than one could conjur come back hard not to love her, she is the summer make it through winter, feel her forever she was an angel even before april night time was the time, now i like sunrise come back and they’ve been unusually stunning did you have hand? paint a picture with thousands of colors and make sure i’m listening i don’t want to miss this you’re gorgeous, i miss you thank god i’ll still see you in the sky come back
5.
lyrics: i tell myself to breathe and to be conscious of my breathing in and out but then i seize up and i have to tell myself to just breathe just breathe you called me on the phone you told me that you’d stay with me as long as i was here for me i’m here for me as long as you’re right here and i know you really care cause no one’s ever really cared not even me and now i know that i am able to be loved
6.
lyrics: love yourself, get up today put a smile, on your face make them think you couldn’t be better if you tried again and again, and again, and again and again, and again and again and again if she wore that did she deserve it? if she drank that did she deserve it? if i loved him did i deserve it? if i touched him first did i deserve it? sometimes we think we’re not worth the good that we’re the reason for the bad did i deserve it? still feel like i do if we believe we’re not worth the good what will we ever get? did i deserve it? still feel like i do
7.
lyrics: you’ve had enough to drink and you can’t anymore my hands are tied. my heavy eyes are closed all the time to you you’ve had enough to drink and my words feel like nothing to you anymore i’ve had enough time to get this off my chest. and if i don’t get better will you please just forgive? i’ve had enough to drink and my words feels like nothing to you anymore i love you you love me we’ll get through this we’ll get past it i believe us we’ll get through it we’ll get past it anymore
8.
lyrics: back seat, bright eyes sunset, night eyes cast me aglow set free your glow i have been waiting for years to feel safe and i feel your warmth and your light hold on to you for when i need you cover my head remember you’re there i have been waiting for years to feel safe and I feel your warmth and your light i have been waiting for years to feel safe and I feel your warmth and your light your light
9.
lyrics: wish i was unbreakable wish i didn’t cry so much wish i could’ve stopped you that time i wish it didn’t matter to me i wish that i could know me wish i could’ve stopped you that time ‘cause every time i turn out the lights, you’re there to remind me of what i was before and every time i close my eyes, you’re there to remind me of what you did before and i wish i didn’t think this way and i wish you would just go away ‘cause you’re here in my heart you’re here in my mind and i need to learn to let go i’ve had enough wish i never let you in wish i never let you win whatever game you played with my head ‘cause now all i see is you in everything i try to do i’m sick, and i’m lost, and i’m scared and i’m hurt, and i’m broke ‘cause every time i turn out the lights, you’re there to remind me of what i was before and every time i close my eyes, you’re there to remind me of what you did before and i wish i didn’t think this way and i wish you would just go away but you’re here in my heart you’re here in my mind and i need to learn to let go and i wish i didn’t feel this way and i wish it all would go away but you’re here in my heart it’s here in my mind and i need to learn to let go. i’ve had enough. and i could do anything before you crept into my mind and now i take everything one day at a time cause you, you crept into my dreams you made everything so hard and every time i turn out the lights you’re there to remind me of what i did before and every time i close my eyes you’re there to remind me of what you did before and i wish i didn’t think this way and i wish you would just go away but you’re here in my heart you’re here in my mind and i need to learn to let go i’ve had enough
10.
lyrics: i told you when you talk to me to look at me when you do i know you need your space but i am breaking under pressure under all the weight talk to me look at me

about

In 2014 I sat in the basement of the arts building in my college contemplating what I wanted to do with my music. The out-of-tune practice pianos just weren't cutting it for me anymore. I put out 2 albums and didn't love the end result. I wanted to learn more and grow as a musician. I started getting into electronic music, and from there I built the bones of what became NIGHTMUSIC. Ultimately, I found myself gravitating between the sounds I could create with a program like Garageband and the trusty, wonky pianos in the depths of the art building.

Over the next seven years, I released another album, performed at some open mic nights, went into a sort of artistic dormancy, changed my stage name, and grew up from the 20 year old kid huddled next to a basement piano pouring his heart out. Yet, every time I created something new, I always came back to this collection of songs. There is a beauty to their unpolished, college basement feel, but as I learned more about actually producing music that sounds good, I wanted to give this album the polish it really deserves.

So, I started with my favorite track on the album: "Your Space". I loved the potential of creating this really soaring and haunting sound to cap out the album. I always loved the end of that song and it took a lot of strength to keep it short and sweet. I had the most fun reworking "Helios", another one of my favorites on the original album. It got to really grow into the hopeful, shiny, peppy love song to Spring that I always wanted it to be. "Ode To Drink" and "My Space" were the only two purely "electronic" songs on the original album, and they both had different journeys in their reworking. "My Space" is cleaner, but relatively the same. "Ode To Drink" became the big, building ballad I had always envisioned it being.

This project was one of the most fun things I've ever taken on. Revisiting this set of songs has reinvigorated me and pushed me out of this creative funk I've been in for years. I hope that you enjoy the re-birth of NIGHTMUSIC as much as I enjoyed re-creating it.

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released May 28, 2021

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Sure Jan Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sure Jan is the stage name of Zackery Wilson. Sure Jan brings you lush, atmospheric pop music that practically defies the laws of reverb and makes you wish you went to your prom in the 90's. Thanks for stopping by.

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