Premiere: Night time Hawk Shares New Single “Watching the World By way of Home windows”
New LP Earlier than We Start is Out August seventh
Aug 06, 2025
Pictures by Izzy Dachs (@isabellesphotographs)
Tomorrow, Washington DC-based indie rock band Night time Hawk are set to launch their debut album, Earlier than We Start. Bandmates Colter Adams and Peyton Semjen first started collaborating whereas each lived in Brunswick, Maine, beginning the band as a songwriting experiment to compose songs impressed by realist painter Edward Hopper.
Since then, the band’s horizons have shifted, though their fashion nonetheless carries echoes of the shadowy contrasts and introspective loneliness that colour Hopper’s work. Most lately, Adams and Semjen graduated from faculty and moved from Maine to Washington DC. Additionally they launched their EP, All the things Good Ends, and adopted this yr with a gradual string of latest singles. At present, forward of their album launch, they’re sharing an early take heed to one of many document’s highlights, “Watching the World By way of Home windows,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
Adams and Semjen wrote a lot of the album within the wake of their transfer to DC, and the ensuing songs discover them unmoored and looking out, navigating the liminal area between adolescence and maturity. “Watching the World By way of Home windows” settles deep inside this introspective mode. Adams and Semjen craft a monitor that feels each plaintive and poignant, steeped in mild acoustic arpeggios, swooning violin accents, and instrumental breaks that descend into swirling tangles of guitar.
Nonetheless, the core of the monitor lies with the beautiful vocal harmonies and touching lyrics. The band provides equal weight to nostalgia and melancholy as they discover vignettes from a previous life, as if they’re making an attempt to maneuver on however can’t assist getting caught up in a reminiscence: “You’re fixing outdated warped pianos / Taking your mother on a giant boat / I’m revving up my dads automobile / I’m taking part in with some guys coronary heart / I’m watching the world by means of home windows / I’m sleeping on a bus in your work garments / Caught between two varieties of mild / Invite me to restore your life.”
Semjen says of the monitor, “‘Watching the World By way of Home windows’ is about going by means of the motions of shifting on from somebody or someplace, hoping it’ll change how you’re feeling, however nonetheless being caught. In lots of methods, Janus is the patron saint of our debut album, and this music particularly, wanting each methods and presiding earlier than these main crossroads in my life. This music is concerning the emotions that bubble up proper earlier than you’re compelled to actually select a path.”
Adams says, “From an instrumental standpoint, I actually needed to seize that Edward Hopper sense of peering into any person else’s life, somewhat surreptitiously. The ebb and stream of the violin and arpeggiated acoustic guitar is mysterious, and somewhat seductive, swirling and lingering as Peyton paints an image of struggling to maneuver on.”
Try the music under. Earlier than We Start is out in all places tomorrow on August seventh.