Having recently signed with New West Records, Ratboys have wasted little time by unveiling "Light Night Mountains All That," their first new single in some two years. Co-produced by Chris Walla (who also plays piano on the track), the single is "driven by an unorthodox time structure, exhilarating instrumentation, and the flare of extraterrestrial guitar bloops," according to a press release.
"We started work on an album this year and the way that normally goes, we write, we rehearse, we record, we mix, we get it all wrapped up tightly and then start putting songs out into the world," Britt Daniel says. "But as we finished up the first two songs for the LP, it crossed somebody's mind and eventually all of ours that these two really should come out now. Let's get them out there. And so here they are today, 'Chateau Blues' and 'Guess I'm Fallin In Love.' Two new tunes with distinct personalities that were summoned into the world the past few months in Austin TX and Providence RI."
"This song began as a poem a few years ago and was initially inspired by poet Frank Stanford. My husband and co-writer, Jeremy Ivey, found the idea I had scribbled from my abandoned notebook, and we resurrected it with a melody. The whole thing came together in ten minutes in one of those lightning bolt moments where you're tapped into something bigger than yourself. I wanted to remind people of all the places and ways that we are still allowed to dream even when the outside world seems like a nightmare."