| Date With The Night | |
| Cover: | DWTN_single_cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| Album: | Fever to Tell |
| Released: | April 14, 2003 (UK) |
| Recorded: | Headgear Studio |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 2:35 |
| Label: | Polydor (UK) |
| Producer: | |
| Prev Title: | Machine |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Pin |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
"Date With The Night" is the first single from Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This single also includes the B-side "Yeah! New York" which can also be found as a bonus track on the UK release of Fever to Tell, and an exclusive remix of "Bang" from their debut EP, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2001).[1] The single peaked at number sixteen on the UK's official charts. The video, directed by Patrick Daughters, was, supposedly, shot at Bristol University Union's Anson Rooms on Saturday 1 March 2003 but also contains scenes shot at other venues during the same tour, including The Zodiac in Oxford. The song is also available as a downloadable track for the music video game series Rock Band.[2] The song is also featured on the soundtrack for the British teen soap opera Skins[3] and is used in an episode opening scene in the second season of Netflix's Daredevil.[4] [5]
"Date With the Night" was met with acclaim from music critics upon its release. In a review of the song, Allmusic's Tom Maginnis said that "the band scatter sinewy riffs laced with soiled power chords and volcanic eruptions of white noise with joyous irreverence."[6] Blender noted that the song had a "disco pulse,"[7] while Entertainment Weekly's Emily Wilson called the song "ferocious."[8] Pitchfork praised the song's "stop/start emergency-room shriek."[9] The Guardian's review noted that "You scarcely notice how mannered the vocals are when there is great music powering away behind" Karen O.[10]
The song debuted and peaked on the Official UK Singles Chart on the chart dated April 26, 2003, at number 16.[11] It remains their highest-peaking single in the UK.[12]
CD & 7" Single