Like his heroes, Rateliff has always been an omnivorous listener and player. “The future of this band is to take everything we’ve ever done in the past and just do it with our own little twist,” says Rateliff. There are familiar elements of soul and garage rock, but also jazz and folk and even country: the crackling energy on opener “Shoe Boot,” the cathartic sing-along of “Coolin’ Out,” the melancholy folk of the closing title track. These songs are grounded in old-school soul and r&b but are far too urgent for the retro or revivalist tag. The result is the aptly titled Tearing at the Seams, a vivacious and inventive full-band record, with significant contributions from all eight members of The Night Sweats. In other words, the Missouri-bred, Denver-based frontman wanted to make the band disappear along with him-out in the middle of the desert at first, and then deep in the woods. I wanted the guys to feel like they were giving something to the project beyond just playing.” But for this new record, I felt like we’d all spent so much time on the road that we should all go off somewhere together. “For the first Night Sweats record, I demo’ed everything up and created most of the parts. Contact: a long time I always had to go off on my own,” says Nathaniel Rateliff of his creative process.
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