Coming off of their sold out release show at Elsewhere Brooklyn for their sophomore album I’d Like To Tell You Something Important, NYC-based synth-pop trio, Moon Kissed, share their newest EP, I’m On My Way.

Along with the new EP, the band are releasing a brand new music video for focus track, “Another Snow Day in Brooklyn“

Vocalist Khaya Cohen says, “I’m On My Way was put together in the manner we know best — trusting intuition and harnessing collective unconscious feelings to chaotically, but with care, create when we need it most. 

Demos we’d been working on, off-and-on for some time, suddenly felt apt and the air felt like it was the time to share some new songs. Thank god because this New Year’s (our anniversary) was really strange and empty feeling, so working remotely on the EP was a beautiful creative way to sift through hard times and hard feelings.”

Giving some insight into focus track “Another Snow Day in Brooklyn,” Cohen says “Another Snow Day in Brooklyn” was written by me and Thomas Daniels, an LA based songwriter I’d never met before, over zoom. 

I fucking hate zoom sessions but this one was a gem because Thomas and I just got each other, and the song came pretty naturally. I worked on producing it a bit and then put it away for a long time, until Leah remembered it and felt inspired by it. With the sudden December shut down, the song’s spirit was reborn.”

“I’m On My Way” was our response to the December shut down. We had to cancel the last night of our residency, and the air in the city was charged and strange surrounding the impending New Year. 

One day on a morning run, something in the air screamed at me to release music, and so I asked Emily and Leah what they thought about leaking one of our many demos that we’ve been waiting for the right time to work on. 

We picked three (“Another Snow Day in Brooklyn”, “The Hills”, and “I’ll Never Know”) that we were excited about and we felt resonated with us. We spent the time around New Years sending stems back and forth and producing what would become the EP. Having that project to work on was a beautiful distraction from the uncomfortable, fearful energy in New York, and a creative alternative to spending the time (which is our anniversary) with Emily and Leah playing shows. 

Our sound is forming entirely in real time. What was great about the speed with which the EP was created was that its subject matter — feeling stuck, escapism,  longing, wintering — resonated deeply with us and our friends and family. 

Our third album, which has, in some ways, been in the works since day one of Moon Kissed, is also a story being told in real time, waiting to unfold. In a climate where the music industry places a large time gap between creation and output, it is imperative to us to act on impulses every now and then and remember that music is there to communicate and heal in real time. 

So though we don’t know for certain what sound our third album will take on, we can guarantee it’ll be a direct communication with the times and our surroundings. 

This EP, born out of a just-awakened New York City suddenly snuffed out once more, explores the feeling of being at a stand still and figuring out how to cope with a life stagnated by forces outside one’s control. 

On the video, drummer Leah Scarpati says, “It’s a peek into our family, our band home videos. It’s a reflection on moments in between, moments in transition, where things settle in sunlight and you feel like you’re in a movie. It’s a tribute to the love we have between each other and our closest friends.”

With the EP out now and a showcase at SXSW in March, the band is taking these songs along with the tracks from their sophomore LP I’d Like to Tell You Something Important on the road in May 2022. On stage the band manages to transcend stale expectations associated with live music today; they bring to every audience a feeling of safety, jubilance, experimentalism, sex positivity, and radical acceptance. The energy between them has that rare once-in-a-lifetime brilliance that has invited comparisons to acts like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Killers. Be sure to stay tuned for show announcements and new content from Moon Kissed.