Mass Gothic's "Nice Night" starts with an arresting restraint in Noel Heroux's melodious voice. A hint of ominousness hangs in the air as one verse leads to the next (the song doesn't have a typical verse/chorus/verse structure), drawing out a hypnotic meditation on depression and loneliness:
'I feel it, only when it comes and when it goesWhen you're awayI feel it, I never thought this on my ownWhen you're away, you're awayIt's more than I can beAnd even hits the groundReturn into the graceI wish I never foundThe evidence is vagueBut you love a little more
Oh, baby I'll, baby I'll, baby I'll be alrightUnscrew my head thenEverything lasts the way to loveEasy nowI'm never in myselfRecognize me into the bedroom lightYou return, you return
Well of course you did'Cause it's more than I could beAnd even hits the groundReturn into the graceI wish I never foundThe evidence is vagueBut you love a little more
Lyrics: Genius
The drums intensify after four verses of exploratory rumination, layering Heroux's shouts and yowls into a haze of climactic sonic distortion. He regains his composure to deliver the final verse, accompanied by an accelerated guitar riff that ends without any lyrical resolution:
'Every day in the morningThe night begins to beIt's more than I could beAnd even hits the groundReturn into the graceI wish I never foundThe evidence is vagueBut you love a little more'
The track yields great cathartic potential, but it doesn't come easily. I find myself hanging onto each verse while awash in Noel Heroux and Jessica Zambri's brooding lo-fi haze, trying to fully make sense of this impressionistic meditation on depression.
