Name: Instant Night
Brand: Beauty Pill

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-NS-137

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

309272738797

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-NS-137C

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clear

Clear Vinyl

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Extended format: Yes

Housed in a rigid transparent jacket.

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309272738742

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

Beauty Pill

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Northern Spy Records

The lyrics of “Instant Night” are insinuating and allusive, not topical. It’s only a political song in the way that Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” or Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” are political songs. People call them “protest songs,” but neither of those songs is as specific as people think. Go back and listen again; they’re pretty abstract! They are more poetic than polemic. “Instant Night” exists within that spectrum too. Originally written by Beauty Pill bandleader Chad Clark in 2015 after he watched Ann Coulter, as a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, predict that Donald Trump would win the 2016 US presidential election, the Washington, D.C. based artist recorded and surprise-released the single in October 2020 out of urgency to inspire people to vote in the presidential election. 

Instant Night

Music US