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Last month, Ratboys announced their signing with New West Records with the release of \u201cLight Night Mountains All That,\u201d a 6-minute, Chris Walla-produced \u201cultra-high energy folk song, in the style of the Dodos\u2019 Visiter<\/em>, with somewhat spooky, mysterious and pastoral lyrics.\u201d Julia Steiner hit the mark with flying colors, I\u2019d say. Our writer Casey Epstein-Gross put it best in that week\u2019s edition of the Best New Songs column: \u201cThe lyrics paint a world that\u2019s both elemental and surreal\u2014stones circling bodies, lightning striking when the sun explodes, a light underground laughing back at you. It\u2019s expansive but exact, every jagged corner smoothed just enough to keep the song from fracturing completely. Still, it wants to break apart, and that tension is the thrill: you\u2019re holding your breath waiting for the avalanche, only to realize the band is guiding you down the mountain instead, guitars glowing like phosphorescence in the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n