Cots – the Montreal-based solo project of composer, singer, and guitarist Steph Yates – shares "Moonlit Building," her first release since the 2021 debut album Disturbing Body, which CBC Music likened to Let It Die-era Feist, and MOJO described as "the sophistication of Everything But The Girl's Eden meets the sadness of Portuguese fado." Produced by Olivier Fairfield – member of FET.NAT, glitch duo Album, and contributor to the incomparable music of Andy Shauf, Timber Timbre, Last Ex and many more – "Moonlit Building" deepens the beautiful, somber, mysterious elements of Yates’s songwriting. Where Disturbing Body weaves elements of bossanova together with jazz and classical, Cots's askew folk takes on a cinematic noir quality with Fairfield's accompaniment: her crystalline voice and nylon guitar devolving in unison with his gravely baritone, cavernous guitar, and eroding rhythm.

Yates says: "I have long admired Olivier’s rhythmic sensibility and his knack for moodiness in production, and felt he might be a good match for this set of songs. Working in-studio together was collaborative and experimental: trying things out, trading off instruments, seeing what stuck."

“Moonlit Building” is accompanied by a music video created with director Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor and "a small crew of pals," wherein Yates is the protagonist of a surreal cinema noir-inspired scene. The tension of the unseen and the unknown fits the song’s im/balanced, decelerating beat.

“Moonlit Building” is the title track to a five song collection that will be released January 25, 2023 on Boiled Records, the Toronto experimental label who released Disturbing Body. The Moonlit Building EP deftly blends the hushed intimacy of Cots’s voice with the fringe musical influences of her roots in the Guelph, Ontario DIY scene, where she learned to be “loud, assertive, and unabashedly scrappy” in outfits like Esther Grey and Cupcake Ductape. A startling evolution of her lush sonic palette, the Moonlit Building EP further bends Cots’s spare and beautiful sound with a reshuffling of a Disturbing Body centerpiece “Flowers (Fresh Cut)” and the celestial lounge sound of “Devil Does.”