Night Time is the fifth studio album by the English post-punk band Killing Joke, released on 25 February 1985 by E.G. through Polydor Records and produced by Chris Kimsey. It entered the UK Albums chart on 9 March 1985 at number 11, their highest position to date and it stayed nine weeks in that chart.
The album was recorded across five weeks in August and September 1984 at Hansa Tonstudio in West Berlin. The band felt that Berlin was a "cold place" which suited the material. Producer Chris Kimsey sought to replicate the sound and feel of the band playing live, and exercised restraint during the mixing process; the group described him as a "true engineer". Coleman felt in retrospect that he was unstable and unbalanced during the sessions.
Release and promotion
Ahead of the release of the album, the band performed three songs live on the UK TV show The Tube on 25 January 1985: "Night Time", "Love Like Blood" and "Kings and Queens".
Night Time was released in late February 1985 by E.G. Records through Polydor. It was an international hit, reaching number 11 in the United Kingdom in its first week on 9 March, number 8 in New Zealand and number 50 in Sweden.
The album was remastered and reissued on CD in 2008 with nine bonus tracks, including 1984 Kid Jensen BBC radio sessions, the non-album single "A New Day" and the previously unreleased complete version of "Blue Feather" (previously only available in an instrumental remix as the B-side to "Love Like Blood").
Critical reception
Night Time generally received a favourable critical response. Retrospectively, PopMatters opined that the band had "perfected" their "balance between antagonism and accessibility" on the album, and were "simply on fire on this record".
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