Night Fiction

Cian Nugent is the type of guitarist who can dazzle with his attention to detail on the fretboard, but he is also content to ride out on one chord for several measures if the song calls for it. Each song on his third album (his first as a singer/songwriter) unwinds unhurried and his backing band, the Cosmos, take their time asserting their sound. This is patient music at its best.

The time that it takes an artist to become restless and chameleonic is becoming shorter and shorter these days. It's almost…

After the celebrated solo acoustic guitar album Doubles, in 2011, Irish guitarist Cian Nugent brought in the Cosmos for 2013's sprawling exercise in jamming, Born with the Caul.

Extended periods of silence have been known to do strange things to people. A long spell without speech has the power to drive an individual to a word-drunk eruption of over-sharing. Conversely, it can transform a person into a Paris, Texas-esque husk of

'Night Fiction' by Cian Nugent, album review by Allie Volpe. The full-length comes out on February 5 on Woodsist. Cian Nugent plays march 7 in Allston, MA.