Blessed Night

"Blessed Night" is the third single from Howling Bells. It released on May 1, 2006 on CD and vinyl. It also serves as the tenth track from their debut album, Howling Bells.
Critical reception
Like so many of the tracks from the first album, "Blessed Night", was met with exaltation and approval from so many in the UK music industry. Their unique sound was likened to a eternally dark forest meets a dusty desert landscape while those who have lived before us roll over in their graves just to get a listen. A critic writes, "there is sensitivity above the chugging death-march BRMC rhythm where crystal guitars pirouette". Another declares it, "a bluesy David Lynch-ian soundtrack to desolate vistas and empty highways".
Music video
Directed by Dan Fernbach for Static Films, it utilizes an aspect ratio of 1:78:1
Headlights from a moving vehicle splashed along a white picket fence and then a road act as the establishing shots, followed next by a high-angle exterior shot leading the car down the road. The video as a whole is cut between: eye-level interior medium and close-up shots; grille-level leading shots; low-angle exterior port-side shots; eye-level exterior senior-side shots; etc. No interior camera mounts are present, all is filmed hand-held.
The band make their way through Weybridge in Surrey in the earliest of morning hours in a 1976 Buick LeSabre Custom coupe. Along the way they see a number of things that seem surreal to them given the strange hour of the night. In a yard, two little girls playing hula hoops; a blind man trying to find his way; a boy swinging a sparkler; a ballerina dancing. In the morning they wake up parked along the side of a road unsure of what they witnessed was all just a dream or reality.
Track listings
CD - BELLACD116
#"Blessed Night"
#"Starry Eyes"
#"The Bell Hit" (BBC 6 Music Session)
=====7" - BELLAV116=====
#"Blessed Night"
#"Highway 99"

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