Morphine

Before he died of a heart attack onstage last July, Mark Sandman specialized in leaving
things unsaid; he was a master minimalist who created mood as much by what he left out as
by what he put in. When he lets out a soft "whooh" at the end of the percolating mood
piece "Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer," it qualifies as catharsis by Morphine standards. That said,
The Night is the Boston band's most painstakingly layered and ambitious album,... More >