See Night is a musical project by Los Angeles-based guitarist and singer-songwriter Linda Sao, who performs both solo and with a powerhouse band featuring drummer Cory Aboud, guitarist Patrick Andrews, and bassist AJ Marquez. Known for their explosive live performances, See Night has shared stages with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Widowspeak, Matthew Logan Vasquez (Delta Spirit), Lady Lamb, John Vanderslice, Rogue Wave, The Pack a.d., Sunwatchers, and David Dondero, among others. Their 7-inch single Eloquence was personally selected by Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich for release on his Brokers Tip Records. Sao is also an official Anderson Guitarworks artist, alongside icons like David Crosby, James Iha, Hannah Wicklund, and Graham Nash.
See Night’s new album Just Another Life is out February 28th and is a shoegaze/dream pop/psych reflection on the lives we lead and ultimately leave behind to start fresh. The majority of the new songs were recorded over three days with co-producer Tres Sasser in his Tresland studio in Nashville with Joe Costa (Ben Folds, Elizabeth Cook, Lyle Lovett, Sara Bareilles) engineering and mixing, with an additional session at The Bomb Shelter (Alabama Shakes) in Nashville with Jack Tellman engineering and drummer Aboud.
“Tres and Joe have become my go-to studio team of incredibly talented friends,” says Sao. “They’ve both worked on the previous See Night releases. And just like with my bandmates, I have to feel emotionally safe with the people I work with because both recording in a studio and performing live onstage are incredibly vulnerable things. I want good people to infuse good energy into what I consider personal heart songs.”
Glide is premiering the lush “Sober & High” (below), a fervently emotive track that resembles the achingly heart-strung vocals of Mazzy Star and Natalie Merchant. See Night has incorporated swelling orchestral waves that create a memorable listening imprint; one can only anticipate what the band’s future live show potential will achieve.
“Interestingly, I also get that feeling of being sober and high from those special live shows when all the elements are aligned—the space, sound, crowd, performance,” says Sao. “That otherworldly inward connection to the songs coupled with the outward connection to a deeply listening audience gives a euphoria similar to that from romantic love. They’re rare life moments that I will never forget, and I was lucky enough to experience that very recently at my first big L.A. solo show—I still feel high off of that one! At the end of the day, just as in romantic love, it’s quite simply all about an exchange of genuine connection, and that’s why I perform live and reveal personal heart songs onstage.”
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