| Night on the Sun | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Modest Mouse |
| Cover: | Up090.jpg |
| Released: | 1999, 2000 |
| Length: | 23:40 (CD Release) 19:17 (Vinyl Release) |
| Label: | Rebel Beat Factory Up Records (US) Matador Records (UK) |
| Producer: | Brian Deck |
| Prev Title: | The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Night on the Sun is an EP by alternative rock band Modest Mouse, released in 1999 as a Japan-only album, again in 2000 as a 12" vinyl in the US and UK http://www.discogs.com/Modest-Mouse-Night-On-The-Sun/master/213003, and was re-issued in 2016 http://store.glacialpace.com/collections/modest-mouse/products/modest-mouse-night-on-the-sun-ep. The tracks on the Japan's Rebel Beat Factory label were taken from The Moon & Antarctica demos that were sent to Epic Records. The four tracks on 12" ended up on 2001's Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks. Extra percussion on "I Came As A Rat (Long Walk Off A Short Dock)" was provided by Ben Massarella and bass on You're the Good Things was played by Ben Blankenship http://www.discogs.com/Modest-Mouse-Night-On-The-Sun/release/2075732.
Pitchfork Media compared the EP favorably to the works of The Velvet Underground, noting that the recording contained both characteristics of their earlier work as well as the musical direction taken after their major-label debut album, The Moon & Antarctica[1]