Nighthawks!, by The Lunar Laugh

Nighthawks!

by The Lunar Laugh

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1.	I Wanna Know 03:34	buy track
2.	It's Okay 04:24	buy track
3.	On The Road 03:39	buy track
4.	By The Light Of The Living Room 04:21	buy track
5.	Winsome 01:41	buy track
6.	Living A Lie 04:13	buy track
7.	Alive 05:47	buy track
8.	Waiting For A Sign 05:38	buy track
9.	Tell Me A Story 04:36	buy track
10.	Solitary Man 02:57	buy track
11.	Mama's Boy 03:34	buy track
12.	Welcome To The World 03:20	buy track
13.	Old New Kid In Town 02:59	buy track
14.	Soul Meets Body 04:31	buy track
15.	The Bedroom Door 04:20	buy track
16.	Apollo 02:45	buy track
17.	Nighthawks And Mona Lisa 04:11	buy track
18.	Work In Progress 06:09	buy track

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As THE LUNAR LAUGH returns to stages in their native Oklahoma (as well as Texas and elsewhere), Big Stir Records is thrilled to announce our first major release with the acclaimed indie pop band. The new album NIGHTHAWKS! is an an exciting collection of never-before-released live recordings spanning the group's full career, along with a pair of exclusive studio tracks. It's out September 10 on CD and digital, up for pre-order at www.bigstirrecords.com and bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com now, and streaming everywhere on the street date.

The brightly melodic and harmony-drenched focus track and album opener “I Wanna Know” (with Lunar Laugh founders CONNOR ANDERSON and JARED LEKITES splitting the lead vocals) can be expected to follow the recent single “Allegiance” up the indie-pop charts worldwide. Also included is “It's Okay," a lyrically reassuring pop tune released as a single in the wake of the band's postponement of their scheduled concert performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic and spotlighting CAMPBELL YOUNG (who joined the duo of Lekites and Anderson for the second of their three studio records, Mama's Boy). Following these two studio efforts is a treasure trove of carefully curated documents of the band's celebrated onstage prowess to remind fans of what they've been missing.

Far from a standard live album, NIGHTHAWKS! offers a rich bounty of concert recordings capturing The Lunar Laugh at various fascinating, pivotal times throughout their career. The band's long-standing policy of recording gigs pays off with a selection of sterling, often re-imagined performances of tunes from all three of the albums they've released since 2015, as well as two choice covers reflecting their eclectic roots – Neil Diamond's “Solitary Man” and Death Cab For Cutie's “Soul Meets Body”. There's also a band performance of “Alive” from Young's solo oeuvre.

Taken as the sum of its parts, NIGHTHAWKS! documents the restless creative spirit of a band dedicated in equal parts to reinventing itself and honoring its pop-rock influences. The band sports a tight chemistry and a relaxed stage demeanor as they draw material from their 2015 debut Apollo (the crowd-pleasing title track and “Winsome”) through their most recent watershed album Goodnight Noises Everywhere (2019). There's a generous helping of tracks from a series of shows performed when the band was still in the afterglow of the internationally acclaimed Mama’s Boy, including the Anderson showcase “The Bedroom Door” and the rootsy “Nighthawks And Mona Lisa” from which the collection takes its title (and its visual inspiration, slyly executed by painter Lane Faglie and designer Steve Stanley).

The sound is crisp and the mixes by Steve Boaz show off the textures of the instrumental interplay and the harmonies of Lekites, Anderson and Young to wonderful effect. The sound and live energy are almost breathtaking in their immediacy after a year without gigs and in an age where concerts are typically preserved as compressed cellphone videos. Above all, NIGHTHAWKS! demonstrates just why fans should be so excited to see THE LUNAR LAUGH hit the road again, and for where the band's creative journey takes them next as well.

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released September 10, 2021

Produced by The Lunar Laugh
The Lunar Laugh is:
Connor Anderson: Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Jared Lekites: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Harmonica, Percussion
Campbell Young: Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Bass, Vocals

along with:
Chris Anderson - Keyboards
Peter Collins - Keyboards, Melodica
Jimmy Jackson - Drums, Percussion
Triston Lightner - Bass, Vocals
Derek Moore - Bass
Logan Morris - Percussion
Levi Sherman - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
John Stendel - Bass

Special appearances by:
Chase Kerby - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar on "Soul Meets Body"
Kyle Reid - Pedal Steel Guitar
Lucas Ross - Banjo on "Nighthawks and Mona Lisa"
Taylor Johnson - Bass, Keyboards, Guitars on "I Wanna Know" and "It's Okay"

Live material recorded at:
July 30, 2017 at Myriad Gardens, Oklahoma City, OK
October 20, 2018 at Heard on Hurd, Edmond, OK
December 21st, 2018 at VZD's, Oklahoma City, OK
June 22, 2019 at Breathing Rhythm Studios, Norman, OK
Live Recording Engineers: Steve Boaz, Andy Hopkins

Post Production at LaCroix in The Attic, Edmond, OK supervised by The Lunar Laugh
Mixed by Steve Boaz at Breathing Rhythm Studios, Norman, OK

Studio material recorded and mixed at:
Lunar Manor Recording Studios, Oklahoma City, OK
Engineered and mixed by Taylor Johnson
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering, Omaha, NE
COMPACT DISC MASTERING APPROVED BY THE LUNAR LAUGH, WINTER 2020

Album art direction: Jared Lekites
Cover painting: Lane Faglie
Layout/Graphics: Steve Stanley
Photography: Emma Anderson, Michael Bulbeko, Kalie Gosdin, Mack Myskey

Special thanks to Rex, Chris and all the Big Stir family for their incredibly generous hospitality.
An extra special and heartfelt thanks to all the venues, promotors, stage crews, vendors, and our family/friends/fans all over for cheering us on at our shows. See you again soon! - TLL

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