Ratboys have shared a new single, ‘Light Night Mountains All That’, which accompanies the announcement that they’ve signed to to New West Records. The track features piano by co-producer Chris Walla, while guitarist Dave Sagan, drummer Marcus Nuccio, and bassist Sean Neumann keep up a frantic pace that Julia Steiner capably and cathartically sings over. It seems to continue their pattern of releasing a sprawling single to kickstart a rollout, and it’s pretty astonishing. Check out a video for it below.
“My original idea was to write an ultra-high energy folk song, in the style of The Dodos’ Visiter, with somewhat spooky, mysterious, and pastoral lyrics – like what Chris Otepka of The Heligoats might conjure up on a mushroom trip,” Steiner said of the new single in a statement. “This song really took shape during our initial writing session up at the Driftless Cabin in Wisconsin last March; the guys and I nearly went insane fleshing out the arrangement and its odd timings together. I wrote the lyrics during that original demoing trip, centered around the idea of a fantastic, rural vision-quest where the days and nights blend together and nothing is quite as it seems.”
The accompanying video, directed by Nuccio, was shot at farm in Central Illinois. “We used a bunch of DV cameras to convene with some benevolent rock and roll ghosts we met along the way,” Steiner added.
‘Light Night Mountains All That’ marks Ratboys’ first new music since 2023’s The Window. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Ratboys.
