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Nocturnal Habits
12+ albums
alternative rockpost-hardcoreindie rockalternativeunwound
about
Guitarist/vocalist Justin Trosper is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, born in Olympia, Washington. Nocturnal Habits sits somewhere between a solo project, a collaboration and a band-- being all these things at some point and none all at once. It started in 2014 as a solo producer style recording project and has transformed into a new band featuring Sara Lund, Sherry Fraser, Scott Seckington, and Matt Buscher. “Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear night; they fear, rather, the energies and creatures to whom night gives power; we of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? Having made themselves at home in a civilization obsessed with power, which explains its whole world in terms of energy, do they fear at night for their dull acquiescence and the pattern of their beliefs? Be the answer what it will, to-day's civilization is full of people who have not the slightest notion of the character or the poetry of night, who have never even seen nig
