Late Night Tales: David Holmes

Late Night Tales: David Holmes
Compilation album by
ReleasedOctober 21, 2016 (2016-10-21)
GenreElectronic music
Length71:44[1]
LabelNight Time Stories
ProducerDavid Holmes
David Holmes chronology
Mindhorn
(2016)
Late Night Tales: David Holmes
(2016)
Logan Lucky
(2017)
Late Night Tales chronology
Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds
(2016)
Late Night Tales: David Holmes
(2013)
Late Night Tales: BadBadNotGood
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic99/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Irish Times[3]
Record Collector[4]
Drowned in Sound[5]

Late Night Tales: David Holmes is a DJ mix album curated and performed by David Holmes for Late Night Tales series, released by Night Time Stories on 21 October 2016. It features artists such as Children of Sunshine, Buddy Holly, Neo Maya, Geese, and Jon Hopkins, among many others.[3]

The album was highly praised by critics, getting a rating of 99/100 (universal acclaim) by Metacritic.[2] The Irish Times' Jim Carrol wrote, "Holmes does not disappoint, creating powerfully evocative, engaging and moving sound essays on life, loss, mortality, brotherhood and memory. [...] Holmes’ selections for the small hours are full of heft, melancholy and deeply felt connections."[3] Brian Coney of The Quietus wrote, “Few individuals fit the mould for a much-loved, artist-curated compilation series quite as comfortably as David Holmes. [...] In taking our hand but never gripping too tight, Holmes taps into something that even the best Late Night Tales compilations sometimes neglect: the pure self-therapy of total escapism."[6] Ransom Note author Joe Roberts wrote, "If there is such thing as a soul, then Holmes has poured his own into this."[7]

  1. ^ "David Holmes - Late Night Tales". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Metacritic review". Metacritic. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Carroll, Jim (18 October 2016). "David Holmes - Late Night Tales review: a winning compilation". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. ^ Easlea, Daryl. "VARIOUS ARTISTS - LATE NIGHT TALES: DAVID HOLMES". Record Collector. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  5. ^ McGrath-Bryan, Mike (8 November 2016). "David Holmes - Late Night Tales". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  6. ^ Coney, Brian (5 November 2016). "David Holmes - Late Night Tales". The Quietus. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  7. ^ Roberts, Joe. "A Guide To David Holmes 'Late Night Tales'". Ransom Note. Retrieved 22 April 2020.