The December issue of Relix Magazine features a profile of Royal Potato Family Records. The article mentions a new album by Surprise Me Mr. Davis singer Nathan Moore called Dear Puppeteer. Moore has now confirmed that the album will be released February 1 on Royal Potato Family. The Staunton, Virginia-based singer and songwriter recorded the album around his home in the Shenandoah Valley with co-producer and guitarist Bryan Elijah Smith, as well as at his previous Santa Fe, NM stomping grounds, Frogville Studios.

According to Royal Potato, “ Dear Puppeteer could best be described as a letter in 13 songs from Nathan Moore to the puppet masters: fear, mortality, the righteous, the jailor, lost love and lost time. On the title track, Moore sings: ‘Gonna write a letter, dear puppeteer, I don’t want to play here, I don’t wanna stay here.’ From this simple plea it’s apparent that a restless spirit is at work. Nathan’s warm fingerpicked acoustic guitar, ghostly harmonica gales, ancient ukulele meditations and tobacco-stained vocals are inhabited by a poet seeking something better, while giving song to the human condition in all of its beauty and sadness.”

Moore is also putting the final touches on a studio album with Surprise Me Mr. Davis.

Dear Puppeteer track listing:

1. Like A Cartoon
2. Safe To Say
3. Dear Puppeteer
4. In The Basement
5. A Little Crazy
6. I’m The Same
7. The Garden
8. Hollow
9. Can’t Fly To Heaven
10. When My Time Comes
11. Train Of Thoughts
12. Choose Thy Love
13. I’m Good Company