Ratboys shared their last album, the Chris Walla -produced The Window , in 2023. Now, they’re back with a new song and a new label home. Also co-produced with Walla, “ Light Night Mountains All That ” is the Chicago rock band’s debut single for New West Records . Ratboys drummer Marcus Nuccio directed the accompanying music video. Watch 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,” Ratboys singer Julia Steiner said in a statement. “[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, cente