Late Night Feelings

by Mark Ronson

Overview

Mark Ronson made himself vulnerable to new accusations of opportunistic conceptual thievery when he described his fifth album, released within proximity of Steps' Tears on the Dancefloor and Camilo Cabello's "Crying in the Club," as "sad bangers." In the producer's defense, the direction he took here isn't a trend chase. The mode goes back generations, even long before Ronson's childhood, when commercial airwaves were pumping out enough aching jams to make a series of mixtapes titled DX7s & Distress. Unlike most of the contemporary artists who use the c-word when promoting a new album, Ronson sees his concept all the way through. He and his shrewdly chosen cast of collaborators -- including ten vocalists, from Lykke Li to Cabello to Ilsey, all women -- fill out the equivalent of one side of a C90 with a snappy if dispirited set of rhythmic pop-R&B hybrids, all finely glazed. They cover a lonely hearts club Bingo card: insecurity, miscommunication, codependency, grief, withdrawal, imprudent rebounds, the works. Contrary to the mess of emotions, everything else is neatly organized with an uncommon sense of continuity. The album begins in swirling, deceptively festive style with some resemblance to the Avalanches' Since I Left You and ends in a soft-pulsing ballad echoing the lyrics of the intro. Three consecutive tracks deploy poised belter YEBBA, who makes like an Arkansan Roisin Murphy in the heart of the sequence. Almost every other lead performance -- one dejected delight after another -- is worth singling out. Only Diana Gordon's striking turn contains promise, but in this context, tears seem inevitable. Whether the sweeping country-disco hybrid "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" would exist without Kacey Musgraves' "High Horse" is questionable, but it's undoubtedly a career highlight for Ronson and the featured Miley Cyrus. Overall, this is one of Ronson's best works -- a complete pop album. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	06/21/2019
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0190759389317
Rank:	56855

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Late Night Prelude
2. Late Night Feelings
3. Find U Again
4. Pieces of Us
5. Knock, Knock, Knock
6. Don't Leave Me Lonely
7. When U Went Away

Disc 2

8. Truth
9. Nothing Breaks Like a Heart
10. True Blue
11. Why Hide
12. 2 AM
13. Spinning

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mark Ronson   Primary Artist,Bass,Drums,Piano,Guitar,Synthesizer,Guitar (Electric)
The Wired Strings   Primary Artist
Alicia Keys   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Natalie Leggett   Violin
Patrick Kiernan   Violin
Ian Hendrickson-Smith   Saxophone
Greg Phillinganes   Synthesizer
Wayne Bergeron   Flugelhorn
Leon Michaels   Piano,Synthesizer
Rodney Wirtz   Viola
Ivan Jackson   Trumpet,Synthesizer
Diana Gordon   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
John Wittenberg   Violin
Miley Cyrus   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Tom Lea   Viola
Victor Axelrod   Synthesizer
Tommy Vicari   Horn Engineer
Deborah Widdup   Violin
Nick Barr   Viola
Steve Richards   Celli
Dave Walther   Viola
Homer Steinweiss   Drums
Shawn Mann   Viola
Dane Little   Celli
Suzie Katayama   Celli
Ian Humphries   Violin
Charlie Bisharat   Violin
Jane Oliver   Cello
Shalini Vijayan   Violin
Alex Greenwald   Guitar,Synthesizer
Richard Pryce   Double Bass
Nick Movshon   Bass,Drums
Dave Guy   Trumpet
Thomas Brenneck   Piano,Guitar,Synthesizer,Guitar (Acoustic)
John Kirby   Synthesizer
Lykke Li   Featured Artist
Ilsey Juber   Drums,Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Neil Samples   Violin
David Campbell   Conductor
Francis Grimes   Violin
Ellie Stanford   Violin
Rosie Danvers   Cello
Gerardo Hilera   Violin
Katherine Jenkinson   Cello
Paul Willey   Violin
Fiona Brice   Violin
Chris Elliot   Conductor
Sara Parkins   Violin
Lykke Li Zachrisson   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Eleanor Mathieson   Violin
Jo Knight   Cello
Michele Richards   Violin
Roger Linley   Double Bass
Reiad Chibah   Viola
Perry Montague-Mason   Violin
Charles Mutter   Violin
Jenny Sacha   Violin
Kerenza Peacock   Violin
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick   Celli
Christopher Tombling   Violin
Alex Iles   Trombone
Sarah Sexton   Violin
Chris Clad   Violin
Matthew Ward   Violin
Elizabeth Pupo-Walker   Percussion
Marianne Haynes   Violin
Kevin Parker   Guitar,Synthesizer,Synthesizer Bass,Vocals (Background)
Raymond Mason   Trombone,Conductor
Chris Turner   Vocals (Background)
Anna Croad   Violin
Tiffany Stevenson   Vocals (Background)
Angel Olsen   Vocals,Featured Artist,Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Kirsty Mangan   Violin
Carrie Kennedy   Violin
Joe Crispiano   Guitar
Laura Brenes   French Horn
Virginia Slater   Viola
Daniel Bhattacharya   Violin
Picard Brothers   Synthesizer
Steve Morris   Violin
Honor Watson   Violin
Riccardo Damian   Horn Engineer
Camila Cabello   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Ilsey   Featured Artist
Brandon Bost   Synthesizer
Denise Renee   Vocals (Background)
The Last Artful, Dodgr   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Dave Daniels   Cello
Katie Wilkinson   Viola
Bryony Mycroft   Viola
Amandla Stenberg   Vocals,Soloist
Jae5   Synthesizer
YEBBA   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Alissia Benveniste   Bass
Abbey Smith   Vocals (Background)
King Princess   Vocals,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Conor Szymanski   Drums
Jonah Feingold   Guitar (Electric)
Katie Burke   Cello

Technical Credits

Serban Ghenea   Mixing
Leo Abrahams   Engineer
Mark Ronson   Composer,Producer,Programming
Leon Michaels   Composer
Nick Taylor   Engineer
Diana Gordon   Composer
Miley Cyrus   Composer
Victor Axelrod   Composer
Tommy Vicari   String Engineer
Tommy D   Producer
Joshua Blair   String Engineer
Homer Steinweiss   Composer,Engineer
Suzie Katayama   Contractor
Nick Movshon   Composer,Engineer
Thomas Brenneck   Composer
Tom Elmhirst   Mixing,Additional Production
Ilsey Juber   Composer
Beatriz Artola   Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Andrew Wyatt   Composer
John Hanes   Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Bettie Ross   Copyist
Collier Schorr   Cover Photo
Rosie Danvers   String Arrangements
Todd Monfalcone   Engineer,Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Harley Wertheimer   Photography,Inlay Photography
Chris Elliot   Arranger
Lykke Li Zachrisson   Composer
DaHonorable C.N.O.T.E.   Producer,Programming
Randy Merrill   Mastering
Brian Roettinger   Art Direction
Jens Jungkurth   Engineer,Assistant
Honorable C.N.O.T.E.   Producer,Programming
Romy Madley Croft   Composer
Martin Hollis   String Engineer
Jr. Blender   Producer,Programming
Phil Joly   Engineer
Kevin Parker   Composer,Producer,Programming
Raymond Mason   String Arrangements
Tommy D.   Producer
Stephen Kozmeniuk   Composer
Jamie xx   Additional Production
Angel Olsen   Composer
Brendan Morawski   Assistant
Jeff Gartenbaum   Assistant
Abby Echiverri   Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Rowan McIntosh   Engineer
Nicholas Movshon   Composer
Picard Brothers   Producer,Programming,Additional Production
Mike Malchicoff   Composer
Clement Picard   Composer
Maxime Picard   Composer
Riccardo Damian   Mixing,Engineer,Programming
Josh Tyrrell   Engineer
Camila Cabello   Composer
Mikaela Straus   Composer
Brandon Bost   Engineer,Assistant,Programming,Mixing Assistant,Mixing Arrangement,Additional Production
Brandon Williams   Score Preparation
Connor Panayi   Assistant
Barry McCready   Engineer
Elliot Smith   Composer
Tyler Beans   Engineer,Assistant
Jae5   Producer,Programming
Rob Bisel   Engineer,Assistant
Abbey Smith   Composer
P2J   Additional Production
Dylan Neustadter   Engineer,Assistant
Alana Chenevert   Composer
Conor Szymanski   Composer
Mikayla Mundy   Assistant Engineer
Ari Bre Bre   Assistant Photographer
Matthew Scatchell   Assistant Engineer
Tamara Santos   Photography,Inlay Photography