![]() It forces us to live like vampires, working while the moon is out and sleeping while the sun is up, in direct conflict with our biological rhythms as human beings. Why? Because the graveyard shift is always going to be the least popular slot on the time card. ![]() “Night Shift” is a perfectly crafted ballad, but that line is what gives it next-level staying power. It’s not until after 3 minutes have passed that we get to the chorus, which states the artist’s disdain for her subject with devastating clarity: “You’ve got a nine to five / So I’ll take the night shift.” Dacus reprises this moment over and over again during the song’s explosive back half, belting out the notes toward the end, placing it in the pantheon of patiently crescendoing classics like “Hey Jude” or “With or Without You.” First the bass joins Dacus’s somber guitar, then the drums, then the atmospherics. ![]() After a sparse opening verse, the arrangement builds slowly and persistently. ![]() In 2018, singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus kicked off her second album Historian with “Night Shift,” an epic, 6-minute breakup song. ![]()
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