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“You Worry Me” was just one of several dozen songs the band brought to Cottage Grove, Oregon to the home-studio of producer Richard Swift. The gambit paid off: less than two months after it was released, “You Worry Me” became the group’s second Number One single on Triple A radio, one of the most important industry benchmarks in independent rock. “I questioned whether or not that should be the first single, but I think the idea was for that to attract different listeners other than the ones we have now.”

The group’s lead single, “You Worry Me” offers a contemporary rock anthem in the vein of the Black Keys that only vaguely resembles the template the Night Sweats established on their debut, so much so, in fact, that Rateliff was hesitant to release the song as a single.

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The album, once again, was tastefully arranged by producer Richard Swift, who infuses the band’s sound with a series of breakbeats and rhythm tracks inspired by 90’s hip-hop. On Tearing At The Seams, Rateliff’s anxious meditations on love, faith and commitment are set to a mix of feel-good 70’s r&b that’s now mixed with dark-edge modern rock on several tracks. are capable of, musically, than its predecessor. The band’s new album encompasses a more adventurous, expansive vision of what Rateliff and co. “I like to actually sit by myself and write words, so there’s a lot I want to do,” he says when asked if he’s found it difficult to write on the road over the past few years, “but I’ve pretty much given all my time away to everyone, so it’s just hard to do.” Speaking with the band on the verge of releasing their highly-anticipated second album, Rateliff & The Night Sweats are both enthusiastic about the several years of touring that are sure to follow and acutely cognizant of the demands of their newfound semi-stardom.Ĭalling during some rare downtime at the Los Angeles airport earlier this year, Rateliff sounded tired, if not vaguely wary of his newfound attention. “The last three years are such a blur in so many ways,” says Pope. The latter song, which has accumulated nearly 40 million YouTube views to date, would catapult the band into a several years-long tour of sold-out theaters around the world and even resulted in Rateliff jamming with digitized hamsters in a high-profile Kia commercial.

The group’s self-titled debut, released in August 2015, would become a sleeper hit, spawning revival cult-anthems like “I Need Never Get Old” and the viral hit “S.O.B.,” a jubilant soul-party anthem that nonetheless chronicles Rateliff’s struggles with sobriety. Little more than a few years after convening in Belgium, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have emerged as one of the most unlikely success stories in contemporary roots rock.

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“I just remember being so excited and thinking, ‘Oh my god, I can’t wait to go record a record with this band.’”Ī year and a half or so later, the collective would record their first full album together, Tearing At The Seams, which the group released earlier this spring to great acclaim. “We were really happy with the way it went,” says Pope. “Got To Get You Into My Life” - a fast-tempo, hard-chugging rock song that relies heavily on horns - would end up being a fitting genesis of sorts for Rateliff’s Night Sweats, who perform a blend of rock and soul that Rateliff most often describes as a mix of The Band and Sam & Dave.īy the time the Night Sweats were finished recording the McCartney song, they were ecstatic. “We went in there and Nathaniel just said, ‘Go for it.’ He’s never been that hands off before.” “Something happened this time around where Nathaniel was really able to lean on the band in a way that I had never seen him be able to do,” he says. When the band began toying around with a rendition of “Got To Get You Into My Life,” Pope immediately noticed a spark. The band, which first formed in 2013, was still in its relative infancy, with Rateliff serving as the group’s burly, emotive frontman, when they were asked to record a track for a tribute album celebrating the 50 th anniversary of The Beatles’ Revolver.

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