Moonlight Passes On, Attic Abasement's fourth studio album and first in a decade, will be released on August 14, 2026. Today you can hear two new songs - "Bruised Water Moon" and "T-Shirt."
The Rochester, NY recording project, led by singer/songwriter Mike Rheinheimer and joined by a rotating cast of local musicians, has existed as an outlet to work through Rheinheimer’s doubt and low-grade existential anxiety. While 2016’s Dream News was captured in a live, full band setting, Moonlight Passes On emerged from years of introspection; a practice of solitude. “I had a handful of songs sitting on the shelf for years but had just been inspired over the course of a few nights in my basement in early 2023,” explains Rheinheimer. He played nearly every instrument on the album, assembling the songs piece by piece in layered sessions with producer, engineer & friend, Ben Morey at Submarine Sound Studio in Rochester. The approach is a harkening back to Dancing is Depressing (2010) and Swim Through the Dirt (2008), revered titles in the band’s extensive catalog. “That moniker and legacy has always felt like an eternal outlet for me. It feels like a part of my bedrock I can always come back to,” says Rheinheimer.
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