Lightning Bug release soothing new cut "September Song, pt. ii"

The group, made up of Audrey Kang, Kevin Copeland, Logan Miley, Dane Hagen and Vincent Puleo, announced their third album last month with the lead outing "The Right Thing Is Hard To Do", and have today returned with the soothing second sinngle "September Song, pt. ii".

Kang says of the new track, "In summer of 2018 I spent about a month camping alone on this cliff on a small island in the Baltic Sea. There where I was in the north off the coast of Stockholm, the sun was setting insanely late, like at 11pm and it took hours longer than normal. So I'd watch it disappear, this glowing orb sink into the sea every night to the point where I felt kind of insane, like I was hallucinating...and I started reliving memories but they felt like they were right before me and then I felt confused, was I reliving memories, or seeing into the future? I kept thinking to myself, each end is a beginning, each end is a beginning. So this surreal experience with time lay dormant in me, and then an entire year later, I was camping in the PNW, also on the shore, and I watched the sun sink into the sea, and suddenly those sunsets from Sweden rippled through me again very vividly. And when I came back to New York, I wrote this song."

A Color of the Sky will follow the band's 2019 second album October Song.

The seeds for their new album were planted after Kang attended a festival of kites. She explains, "I really didn't know what my life was going to look like, but at the kite festival, I knew that each day I'd see a lot of beautiful kites, and each evening I'd watch the sunset and sleep on the beach. I felt like nothing could hurt me."

Lightning Bug recorded their new album as a live band in a rundown old house in the Catskills that they turned into a makeshift studio. Kang says, "Songs in the past sometimes felt muddled, or I felt lost where to take them. But for this one, each song felt like a whole entity from conception."

She adds of the album, "I want listeners to explore their own interior worlds. It's about learning to trust yourself, about being deeply honest with yourself, and about how self-acceptance yields a selfless form of love."