Mountain Boy - The Nights (Pre-Order)
The Nights is Mountain Boy’s sophomore album — a continuation of their debut The Days, and its spiritual inverse. Where The Days traced moments of solitude and introspection, The Nights turns outward, shaped by connection, camaraderie, and the shared energy of making music together. Like two sides of the same coin, the albums draw from similar sonic and emotional terrain, yet arrive at distinctly different destinations.
The contrast is most evident in how the record was made. The Days was crafted largely in isolation by Aaron Clarke, the songwriter and producer behind Mountain Boy, alone in his studio. The Nights, by comparison, came together in the company of close friends — a collective process that leaves a palpable imprint on the music. Though many of the songs feel bigger and more immediate, they are built from sparer, more raucous arrangements. It sounds like six people in a room, playing off one another in real time. Clarke’s voice sits front and centre, unshielded — no longer buried beneath layers of stacked vocals or choral guitars, but carried by the raw momentum of a band moving as one. The Nights captures Mountain Boy at their most present: intimate yet expansive, quietly confident, and alive with the warmth of shared experience.
TRACKLIST
A Side
1. Windows
2. Like You Do
3. Thunder
4. My My My
5. Me And My Girls
B Side
6. Monsters
7. The Give And The Take
8. Heard It In The Wind
9. Tomorrow I’m Gone
10. The Nights
INFORMATION
DROP054
Size: 12"
Weight: 180gm Heavyweight
Colour: Blue Clear Smoke
Length: 1LP (33.3RPM)
Run Size: 150