Nathaniel Rateliff has written and recorded his first solo record. This is an intensely personal album of vibrant country-blues, badland ballads, ornate Americana and jazz-inflected R&B.
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats practically explodes with deep, primal and ecstatic soulfulness. You don't just listen to this record-you experience it. So it's fitting that the self-titled album will bear the iconic logo of Stax Records, because at
Bone color vinyl, 180g - A staggering rock n' soul album, it's propelled by driving rhythms, blazing horn play and Rateliff's rowdy, soul drenched vocals.
Nathaniel says of the album: “My goal is to make people have honest emotions and a real experience by listening to music in the same way that I feel, the same way that most people feel when they listen to music, that it touches them in some way”.
Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn.