A new album from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats is on the horizon: The Future, the soul-rock outfit’s first record since 2018’s Tearing at the Seams, is out November 5th via Stax Records. To share the news, Rateliff and company have offered a preview with the lead single “Survivor.”
The Future was recorded at Rateliff’s studio just outside his home base of Denver, Colorado. “I look at the album overall as a big question,” the musician explained in a statement. “When I was writing the record we were in the middle of a pandemic and our future looked pretty bleak. I just continue to try to write from a place of hope. Then my own neurosis, and maybe being a Libra gets in the way, and I can’t make up my mind. There is this constant back and forth battle in me personally and I am sure that comes out in my writing.”
“Survivor” exemplifies that breadth of emotion. Driven by a minimal bluesy rhythm section, it’s a moody, foreboding number that gradually builds into an explosive horn fanfare. As the track chugs along, Rateliff’s unmistakably gritty howl remains at the song’s forefront: “I’m afraid that the weight of the world is catching up to you/ I’m afraid to admit that it’s catching up to me, too,” he sings. Check out the lyric video to “Survivor,” as well as details about The Future, below.
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Rateliff’s last solo album, And It’s Still Alright, arrived in November 2019. In March of this year, he performed a duet of “Say It Louder” with Margo Price on CMT Crossroads.
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The Future Tracklist:
01. The Future
02. Survivor
03. Face Down in the Moment
04. Something Ain’t Right
05. Love Me Till I’m Gone
06. Baby I Got Your Number
07. What if I
08. I’m on Your Side
09. So Put Out
10. Oh, I
11. Love Don’t
