"Sing the Night in Sorrow" is the follow-up to Sweet Apple's 2014 album, "The Golden Age of Glitter," which was hailed by Mojo, Esquire, NPR, Rolling Stone and USA Today.

Sweet Apple's debut occurred on March 18, 2010, at Threadgill's in Austin, Texas—at the invitation of Roky Erickson, for the psychedelic legend's 8th Annual Ice Cream Social at South by Southwest.

The Austin Chronicle, writing about the event, "a Detroit-rock style outfit Sweet Apple was as immediate and memorable as the free ice cream.

Mascis had played guitar in Cobra Verde, touring with the band and appearing on its 2003 album, "Easy Listening."

They met in 1986, when Petkovic was playing a show in Hoboken, New Jersey with Death of Samantha, a band that was label-mates with Dinosaur Jr on Homestead Records.

Mascis and Sweetapple added guitar, bass, drums and backing vocal parts in studios on Western Massachusetts.

"[10] and AllMusic's Mark Demming describes it as: " a rousing success"[11] Love and Desperation consisted of 12 songs and a total running time of 39 minutes and 15 seconds.