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{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Night on the Sun
| type       = EP
| artist     = [[Modest Mouse]]
| cover      = Up090.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1999, 2000
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Indie rock]]|[[punk rock]]}}
| length     = 23:40 <small>(CD Release)</small><br>
   19:17 <small>(Vinyl Release)</small>
| 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
| misc       = {{Extra album cover
 | header  = Alternative cover
 | type    = EP
 | cover   = Modest Mouse Night on the Sun EP 2016 cover.jpg
 | border  =
 | alt     =
 | caption = Cover for the 2016 reissue
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]]
| rev1score = (8.7/10) <ref name="pitchfork"/>
}}

'''''Night on the Sun''''' is an [[Extended play|EP]] by [[alternative rock]] [[Rock band|band]] [[Modest Mouse]], released in 1999 as a [[Japan]]-only album, again in 2000 as a 12" vinyl in the US and UK,<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=Modest Mouse - Night On The Sun |date=2000-11-20 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2075732-Modest-Mouse-Night-On-The-Sun |access-date=2024-12-31 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />

==Reception==
[[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]].''<ref name="pitchfork">{{Cite web |last=Kempke |first=D. Erik |title=Modest Mouse: Night on the Sun EP |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5357-night-on-the-sun-ep/ |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Track listing==
===CD Release===

#"Night on the Sun" – 9:21
#"You're the Good Things (It's Alright to Die)" – 4:23
#"Wild Packs of Family Dogs" – 1:47
#"Dark Center of the Universe" – 4:19
#"Your Life" – 3:21
#"No Title" ([[Jeremiah Green]] speaking Japanese) – 0:18

===Vinyl Release===

#"Willful Suspension of Disbelief" – 3:33
#"Night on the Sun" – 7:36
#"I Came as a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)" – 4:36
#"You're the Good Things" – 3:32

==References==
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{{Modest Mouse}}
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[[Category:Modest Mouse albums]]
[[Category:1999 EPs]]


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