Movietone's 1997 Album "Day And Night" Gets Domino Reissue, Unreleased Track Surfaces
UK band Movietone is getting a reissue of its 1997 album Day And Night via Domino, and the campaign comes with a previously unreleased track, "Phonograph Space." According to Stereogum, the band — active around the turn of the millennium — has long sat outside the mainstream indie-rock narrative, and this reissue is one of the few recent moves putting its catalog back into circulation.
What's in the reissue
- Album: Day And Night (originally released 1997)
- Label: Domino
- Highlight: includes previously unreleased track "Phonograph Space"
"Phonograph Space" is the advance track from the reissue campaign — a recording from the original album era that didn't make the initial cut. Full tracklist sequencing and release format details are not specified beyond the label's official announcement.
A belated reappraisal
Stereogum notes that Movietone's whispery, post-rock-tinged work was largely absent from indie music discourse in the 2000s — even listeners deeply versed in that era's underground scene may never have heard the name.
The shift has come in the past year or two. Pitchfork ran a retrospective essay by Mark Richardson revisiting the band's 2000 album The Blossom Filled Streets; Domino followed with the Day And Night reissue, bringing the band's early recordings back to market.