[Cover photo credit to Guy Eppel]
After sitting behind the drumkit for Indie-Pop and Alternative band We Are Scientists for the last 13 years, NYC-based artist Keith Carne has released his debut single “Look for the Moon.”
The single is an aery love song released along with the announcement of Carne’s debut solo album, Magenta Light, to be independently released on April 20, 2026.
Written for his wife, artist Hayley Youngs, Carne’s single “captures the strange emotional and measured altitude of touring life – where love is measured in miles, time zones, and the quiet glow of a shared moon.”
Carne, who also plays on other artists’ albums and songs, says:
I travel a lot in my touring work with other bands and I miss her profoundly when I’m gone. I think about her very often on airport runways, especially flights when I’m the one leaving. This is why there are references to 37,000 feet, oblivion above the clouds, falling and, maybe most importantly, Delta airline wine… Hayley and I always talk about our moon-connection when I’m gone – about how we can connect with one another simply by looking at the moon when we’re apart. Just the act of looking for it brings me great comfort because it brings her to mind.
The single offers an entry point into Magenta Light, and though Carne continues as drummer and backing vocalist for We Are Scientists, here he acts as songwriter, Producer, and multi-instrumentalist, building his own Indie Pop.
Regarding the title of his upcoming album, Carne says:
I named the album for a psychedelic vision my wife had – she saw sparkling, magenta light pouring from my face. I began recording the ideas in my head the very next day with this vision in mind. It’s inspired in equal parts by Pharoah Sanders’s explosive spiritual jazz and Fred Again’s catchy dance anthems. Its implications are both interpersonal and extraterrestrial.
Magenta Light was written, recorded, produced, and performed by Keith Carne, with additional contributions from Brian Bond (Gem County), Justin “Bestamo” Gaynor (Gem County / Keith and Bestamo), Zeno Pittarelli, and Drew Citron (Beverly). Bond handled mixing, Pittarelli mastered the album, and the cover artwork was created by Hayley Youngs, with design by Benedict Kupstas (Field Guides).
