First Comes The Night, the 12th studio album by Chris Isaak has been cut in the country-music capital Nashville. The ‘Wicked Game’ singer was recommended the town as a location to record and produce his upcoming album by Stevie Nicks.  ‘She said it was a fantastic town and the studios and engineers were great. She had nothing but good things to say about it. It could have been recorded anywhere, but it was recorded in Nashville because Nashville’s the best place to make a record.’
The album is set to be released via Vanguard on November 13th marking the first release of original material since 2009’s Mr. Lucky.
Produced by Paul Worley (Dixie Chicks, Lady Antebellum), Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell) and Mark Needham, the album is not necessarily country but does have a number of Nashville based songwriters who collaborated with Isaak including Natalie Hemby, Gordie Sampson, Caitlyn Smith and James Slater. One track, the ballad ‘Reverie’, was co-written by Hemby and Michelle Branch, who also sang on the song.
As for the rest of the songs, Isaak said ‘I like to mix it up so there’s some dark ones, funny ones and romantic ones. You have to absolutely play these songs after the break up while you’re cleaning the house.’
First Comes The Night track list:
The track list:
1. First Comes the Night
2. Please Don’t Call
3. Perfect Lover
4. Down in Flames
5. Reverie
6. Baby What You Want Me to Do
7. Kiss Me Like a Stranger
8. Dry Your Eyes
9. Don’t Break My Heart
10. Running Down the Road
11. Insects
12. The Way Things Really Are
13. Harder Than the Rest (Deluxe version only)
14. Keep Me Hanging On (Deluxe version only)
15. Every Night I Miss You More (Deluxe version only)
16. The Girl That Broke My Heart (Deluxe version only)
17. Love the Way You Kiss Me (Deluxe version only)
