Dark Night Sweet Light by Hermitude

Dark Night Sweet Light, the fifth album from Australian hip hop duo Hermitude, came out on 15 May 2015, and Luke Dubber and Angus Stuart went in with a plan to strip things back. They called it a night record, and it sounds like one: city lights smeared across the windscreen, bursts of euphoria, and a thread of melancholy running through the whole thing. It's simpler than their earlier work, not minimal, just leaner, with every beat given room to land.

"The Buzz" was the standout, and the album went all the way to number 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The award nominations piled up: Album of the Year, Best Independent Release and Best Group at the ARIAs, with Dubber and Stuart up for Producer of the Year and Mitch Kenny for Engineer of the Year, plus two AIR Award nominations and a J Award nod for Australian Album of the Year.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.