Against the Night is the second album, released originally in 1999, by Jason Webley

Jason Webley

Jason Webley is an American musician known for his fusion of folk, experimental and alternative music. He began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, Washington, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing various venues....

. It was re-released by Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

 in 2003. He has been known to regard it as his depressing album, "the soundtrack to a subtle apocalypse." It is his most popular album to date, and Webley regards it as the album where he really comes into his own as a songwriter.

Track listing

1. "Against the Night" – 4:41
2. "2 am" – 2:19
3. "Entropy" – 1:24
4. "Winter" – 4:05
5. "Devil be Good" – 2:54
6. "Jack of Spades" – 1:55
7. "Dance While the Sky Crashes Down" – 4:29
8. "Ontogeny" – 2:15
9. "Again the Night" – 3:40
10. "Millennium Bug" – 4:02
11. "Constellation Prize" – 2:12
12. "Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" – 5:23
13. "Eleutheria" – 4:59
14. "Captain, Where are We Going Now?" – 5:17
15. "Back to the Garden" – 4:01
16. "Last Song" – 6:05
17. "Lullaby" – 2:18

Personnel

• Performed by Jason Webley.
• Drums on "Ontogeny", "Constellation Prize", and "Back to the Garden" by Michael McQuilken.
• Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   on "Back to the Garden" by John Osebold.
• Screaming on "2 am" recorded at the Blue Moon Tavern.
• Additional vocals on "Eleutheria" by Lauryn Cook's alternative tribe, and on "Back to the Garden" by John Banfill, Ben Dunlap, Jeff Harms, and Grant Mandarino.