Night Moves release new single “Ring My Bell”
Night Moves
Release new single “Ring My Bell”
New album Double Life out July 25th via Domino
Minneapolis-based Night Moves release “Ring My Bell,”the second single from their forthcoming album Double Life,due out July 25th via Domino.
Following the “colorful” (Stereogum) and “gorgeous” (Guardian) lead single “Hold On To Tonight,” “Ring My Bell” is its musical and emotional counterpart, with lead singer John Pelant extending an invitation to be asked for help whenever times get inevitably tough, all above the spring-loaded rhythm of drummer Mark Hanson, bassist Micky Alfano and guitarist Charles Murlowski. The single is released alongside a new video by longtime collaborator Shawn Brackbill.
Pelant says of the track, “"Ring My Bell" has been a song I've kicked around for the past 10 years and never really figured out until the summer of '23. I always knew it would arrive, but it would arrive on its own time. I never forced this song. What's most magical is it all came together when I discovered a bell key patch on a 90's Roland through an echo pedal. It was at this point I knew I couldn't change the lyrics and this song's fate was sealed.”
Listen to “Ring My Bell” here.
Watch the video for “Ring My Bell” here.
Double Life is a cozy and cool LP built largely from a string of very rough breaks that frontman John Pelant and Night Moves have navigated in recent years. Alongside the ever-vexing question for artists about when they’re supposed to step into the responsibilities of adulthood and maybe away from the lifelong compulsion to create, especially as Pelant started thinking seriously about marriage for the first time in his life. Pelant is the sort of songwriter who starts with the music—inspired of late by Glen Campbell and Bobby Caldwell, Cleaners from Venus and early ’90s country, and (as ever) Gram Parsons—and then writes lyrics only after he’s sat with the tune a spell. But this time, these songs are direct documents of Pelant’s life as he searches for silver linings or at least valuable meanings during a moment when very little seemed golden. Double Life is about moving through, not moving on.
Pelant started writing Double Life in the Minneapolis duplex he shares with his fiancée, Tasha. But those early and sometimes-forlorn drafts rightfully bummed her out, especially since some of it spoke of her own woes. So, Pelant started treating Night Moves’ little rehearsal room—stuck in a grim industrial zone of the city, surrounded by garbage dumps and foundry fumes—as an office, showing up with workmanlike diligence to keep crafting demos.
That proved to be a tough hang, too: Separated by paper-thin walls, Pelant soon figured out his drug-addled neighbor not only lived there but would also erupt into near-daily shouting matches with his partner. He’d spill Big Gulp cups of piss in their shared hallway. It was worrying, but Pelant kept at it anyway. He’d drive around, delivering hard liquor and wine at his new day job, where Def Leppard’s “Photograph” seemed to play always, the hit hammering through his hangovers. He pondered cycles of addiction and thought a lot about death, apt since that gig was next to another warehouse that sold funeral supplies. He listened to works in progress as he jockeyed the booze, working until he and the band felt they had the core of a record ready.
Again, not as easy as it sounds: Night Moves cycled through two producers who had first sounded like dream collaborators but just didn’t fit their vibe. Once again, Night Moves opted to return to their own practice space, recording the bulk of the album there after capturing basic tracks at Minnesota’s legendary Pachyderm Studios. The decision afforded the band, for the first time, the challenge and luxury of producing themselves, of making every decision about tone and arrangement and timing before passing the songs to Woods sonic mastermind Jarvis Taveniere for mixing and co-production.
Additionally, Night Moves announce their huge 2025 North American Tour with stops including a hometown release show at Minneapolis’ First Avenue, two nights at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, two nights at San Diego’s The Casbah, D.C.’s The Atlantis, Philadelphia’s Johnny Brenda’s, Los Angeles’ Teragram and more. All tour dates are below. General ticket sales begin June 6 at 10am local time.
Night Moves 2025 North America Tour Dates
June 21 – Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barn
June 27 – Rochester, MN @ The Historic Chateau Theater
June 28 – Superior, WI @ Earth Rider Brewery
July 26 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Aug 9 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Four Winds Music & Arts Festival, DaDa Gastropub
Sept 9 – Des Moines, IA @ xBk
Sept 10 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
Sept 11 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sept 13 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
Sept 14 – Montreal, QC @ Le Ritz PDB
Sept 15 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
Sept 16 – Portland, ME @ Portland House of Music & Events
Sept 18 – Cambridge, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
Sept 19 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Sept 20 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Sept 21 – Washington, D.C. @ The Atlantis
Sept 23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Sept 25 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
Sept 26 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
Sept 27 – Indianapolis, IN @ HI-FI
Oct 15 – Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s
Oct 16 – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
Oct 17 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Resonant Head
Oct 18 – Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips
Oct 19 – Austin, TX @ Parish
Oct 22 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Oct 23 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Oct 24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Oct 25 – Oakland, CA @ Felton Music Hall
Oct 26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Oct 28 – Bend, OR @ Volcanic Theatre Pub
Oct 29 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
Oct 30 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Nov 1 – Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
Nov 3 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
Nov 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Nov 7 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Tickets
Double Life is available to pre-order on limited edition Curacao Blue vinyl, standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. Pre-order here: Dom Mart| Digital.
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