[12] Jerome Deupree, the band's original drummer, who had previously quit due to health problems, rejoined and played alongside Billy Conway, according to credits listed in the CD booklet.

[14][15] The band recorded the album over two years[15] in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home studio of singer-bassist Mark Sandman.

[18] The Pitch wrote that "it’s not a romantic exaggeration to say that this album is the trio’s most sensuous, satisfying recording, finally delivering on the diverting-but-two-dimensional original notion of what Sandman termed 'low rock' ...

The Night is the first time in ages a posthumous release has made noise from beyond the grave that doesn’t sound like a cash register.

"[19] Trouser Press wrote that "the tone may be dour due to the singer’s sudden death, but the music is the most fully realized and finely textured Morphine ever mustered.