Nightlands unveils new cut "No Kiss For The Lonely"

After announcing Moonshine with the title-track last month, Hartley has returned with a seccond outing from the record titled "No Kiss For The Lonely", which is teamed with a Michael Flanagan-directed video.

""No Kiss for the Lonely" is the first song I started working on for this album, even before the birth of my daughter, Hazy, who is about to turn four," Hartley explained. "So, it's a song that's been kicking around in my brain for a while. The whole record was done very solitarily, partially due to the pandemic but also because of my new lifestyle as a father and musician. You have to find new ways to carve out time to create when you have the needs of children to consider. But "No Kiss" is actually a pretty collaborative track. A lot of happenstance connections helped it come into being. A borrowed synth (Robbie Bennett's Akai AX60), a synth bass part, a gifted effects processor (an Eventide H9 from Anthony Agnello), a drum loop, and hugely thick vocal stacks (sung by myself, Eliza Hardy Jones, Anthony LaMarca, Jesse Hale Moore and Michael Kiley) all fell together to create this song out of thin air. I'm a firm believer that the best lyrics come with no interference from the brain's cognitive capacities. They just tumble out with the meaning to be parsed later. This song was definitely an example of that. The lyrics came all at once and capture a lot of the exasperation and anger I feel when I read the news."

Moonshine willl follow Hartley's 2017 Nightlands album I Can Feel the Night Around Me, and features contributions from saxophonist Joseph Shabason, The War on Drugs' Robbie Bennet, Anthony Lamarca, Eliza Hardy Jones, and Charlie Hall, Frank Locrasto (Cass McCombs, Fruit Bats) and producer Adam McDaniel (Avey Tare, Angel Olsen).