NYC-based synth-pop trio, Moon Kissed, share their sophomore album, I’d Like To Tell You Something Important, today, and tonight they'll celebrate at their sold-out album release party at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, NY. Along with the new album, the band are releasing a brand new music video for focus track, "Saturday Night,
" today.
Vocalist Khaya Cohen says, "This album, like Moon Kissed itself, is meant to be taken and used as permission and a tool for coming into one’s own and feeling confident in one’s skin. Everyone should have their own journeys with the album and make it their own. For me (Khaya,) this album very much speaks to my experience as a woman. It starts out light and flirty, then gets angry, then gets broken down and sad, coming to terms with some harsh realities. It is very much a catharsis and healing to perform and experience for me."
Giving some insight into focus track "Saturday Night," Cohen says, "'Saturday Night” was written in an attempt to wake up and experience life to the fullest. We live in the greatest city in the world, we are young and hot, we have one life and we’re going to live it. Every generation will live through their share of dark times, but the song wants to emphasize that every now and then letting loose, feeling free and alive, and connecting with each other through positivity is necessary. No more standing in the corner - we’re gonna make out with our friends and stay out until dawn - it’s Saturday Night after all."
This live-right-now energy is the core of the album, the video captures the sexy and embodied vibe of Moon Kissed's shows while also showing that you don't need a whole party and a ton of people: all you really need is Moon Kissed. Lyrics "we all know what we all want" reverberate as the dancing picks up and the lights reflect the glitter on everyone's faces.
On the video, drummer Leah Scarpati says, "This video is all about freedom. The dancing is loose, fluid, and comfortable which mirrors the sentiment of the song. Sometimes going out in NYC it seems like everyone is trying really hard to be a certain thing, nobody's really relaxed. This should serve as permission to just let it go, and do whatever you want."
Recently, the not-a-girl band trio shared their single "Strange Satisfaction,
" along with an official music video.
“Strange Satisfaction” is a moody ode to the way that love can be radioactive in all of its consuming qualities. Moon Kissed pushes past cliché to get to a more specific truth that's intrinsic to the experience of heartbreak. With drums that read melodically like a heartbeat, the song explores the masochistic pleasure -- the strange satisfaction -- of a heart throbbing with the pain of being broken into pieces.
The album's first single, "Bubblegum," is out now along with a music video. Moon Kissed is not a "girl band." They are a force that, when creatively combined, creates a vortex of safety that can be physically and emotionally experienced through the joy of pure freedom, where it's ok to be weird -- in fact, it's encouraged. Expression within the container of Moon Kissed culture looks like bravery, joy, body love, happy tears (and all kinds of tears/release) and full-body chills. This new album is an extension of that energy.
With the album now out and the tour dates announced, the band is taking the LP on the road. On stage, the band transcends stale expectations associated with “live music” and brings, to every audience, something completely new and saturated with a pulsating otherness. Now that Moon Kissed and NYC are officially back in action, the band is back on stage. Many ponder "What does it look like when a city returns to its senses?" and the band was photographed by The New York Times to answer this question. It looks like Moon Kissed singing topless in a circle of fans screaming their lyrics back to them. With a sold-out release show and a previously sold-out show on June 18th in Brooklyn, and a last-minute epic show this summer, the high-energy they're known for is in full force.
A common thread in the band's current releases is joy as an act of resistance and Moon Kissed acts as a permission slip to feel free in your body and soul even within the confines of the world today. At their core, this band is a magnet for self-expression without hesitation. That's how they formed, after all. When Emily, Khaya, and Leah met at a Lower East Side New Years party in 2019, they knew they had to start a band. It was instant. The energy between them had that rare storybook (once-in-a-generation) vibrancy that warrants comparisons to trail-blazing acts like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, etc. Be sure to stay tuned for show announcements and new content from Moon Kissed. 
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