Night Beds

Originating from the vision of Nashville-based singer/songwriter Winston Yellen, who was raised in the Rocky Mountains, Night Beds mapped out a solitary, dimly glowing, rooted yet sweeping sonic territory comparable to that of fellow acts Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, and Frontier Ruckus. The project merged present-day indie folk with an underlying core of Americana and country shaped by Gram Parsons. Multiple EPs appeared first—Night Beds, Every Fire; Every Joy, and Hide from It—followed by the band’s initial full-length studio release, Country Sleep, which Dead Oceans issued in 2013. The second album, Ivywild, arrived in 2015 and signaled an abrupt pivot, replacing indie folk with an electronically charged alt-R&B meditation on romantic dissolution; brother Abe Yellen and roughly two dozen guest musicians contributed, yet the record still carried the dreamy introspection that defines Yellen’s songwriting.