Fire Track: Club Night – “Palace”

Tiny Engines first 2025 release is the long-awaited new Club Night album! Joy Coming Down is out May 2nd and the first single “Palace” is a fantastic first taste of the new album. This is the band’s first release since their debut album What Life which released in 2019, also on Tiny Engines.

Club Night’s sophomore album Joy Coming Down is an ode to loss and what follows. The record borrows its title from the Fred Thomas lyrics “Til you find yourself found with the graves in the ground / Tears rolling out of the eyes wet as a cloud / but it’s only the sound of your joy coming down.” This is the logic of Joy Coming Down: things transmute. Tears become clouds become the joy and pain of our forebearers. Energy can never be lost, only transformed.

The album holds as its central force the whiplash of collective and personal grief, punctuated by the solace of small pleasures. Tracks, like “Dream” and “Dream II,” give into the sludge of loss, with Tatum and bassist Devin Trainer creating a textured, enveloping soundscape—both eerie and comforting. By mid-album, the recklessness, flight and fancy of early tracks like “Expo” or “Lake” have given way to mourning.

You can find the new album HERE.