Darla Records

Northampton, MA/New York city indie rockers New Radiant Storm King deliver the tightest, hookiest and most diverse record in their distinguished career. Recorded over six months in deep, rural Massachusetts, Drinking in the Moonlight proves once again that guitarists/vocalists Peyton Pinkerton and Matt Hunter along with bassist Caleb Wetmore and drummer J.J. O'Connell write some of the most imaginative and memorable American rock. Approaching their twentieth year as a band, NRSK have gracefully matured as song smiths while retaining their prowess at crafting unconventional yet infectious melodies. Drinking in the Moonlight is a sonic mix of urban and rural, sporting distorted yet wiry pop with a marked focus on narrative within their song writing -- trademarks gratifying to longtime fans. Time spent in other bands (Pinkerton in The Silver Jews and The Pernice Brothers; Hunter in J. Mascis & The Fog and The Wharton Tiers Ensemble) has honed the Pinkerton/Hunter attack musically and lyrically. Over the course of thirteen songs, Drinking in the Moonlight addresses topics as varied as random street violence, infidelity and subsequent pregnancy, exorbitant winter heat bills and even an open condemnation of organized religion (Thank God -Ed). Drinking in the Moonlight was recorded with longtime NRSK engineer Mark Alan Miller (Cordelia's Dad, J. Mascis & The Fog) at his Slaughterhouse Studios in Westhampton, MA.

TRACKS:

1) Soporific Slump - A few more pints and then back to your place on 1st Avenue.

2) Undignified -  Hopefully you can convince everyone that you actually are being your natural self - and have been lying up until just now.

3) Senseless - If a random act of brutal violence changed your life for the better, how would you explain it to anyone? To yourself, even?

4) Islander - She could never handle the mainland for more than a few days at any given time.  

5) Little Ice Age - Sometimes the idea of summer seems both impossible and absurd.

6) Anything Can Happen - And usually does, if you're lucky (or not).

7) New Paltz Waltz - Instrumental levity.

8) Eight Steps Closer - Slouching towards Echo Park, with a cosmo in her hand.

9) After the After Hours - Guns, drugs and hipsters - in way over their heads.

10) Midnight Comes - Time horizons always seem to stretch into forever on a first date.

11) Eraser - Lick your wounds and don't look back for a second.

12) Clouds Cover Everything - Are you really sure that your memories are totally your own?

13) Fall Prey - The world is flat.  The sun revolves around it.  We've progressed on so many fronts save one.