Warren Defever’s never been one to waste a good idea, and Last Night is one of his more inspired albums. Working with the group of musicians that he used while touring the album’s predecessor, the R&B-soaked Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth, Defever came up with his loosest, most expansive set of songs yet. The playing breathes, beautifully, whether the group are taking on gentle indie-pop (the lovely cover of Ida’s “Teardrops”), hypnotic Afrobeat (“Someday My Prince Wille Come”), or fearsomely tight, fuzzed-out funk-rock, on a tensile cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “In from the Storm.” Throughout, Lovetta Pippen’s vocals are just right: really, she was the perfect foil for Defever’s aesthetic flexibility, able to adapt to anything he threw her way. Love & War – they were a truly great team.