![]() Impelled by stomping beats and lacerating brass bursts, Rateliff’s preacher man persona extols the power of self-assertion and shakes the heavens above. Love Don’t is The Four Tops possessed by wolves. Where the group’s second album, 2018’s ‘Tearing At The Seams’, was sometimes over-indebted to the likes of Booker T & the M.G.’s, Otis Redding and Ray Charles, ‘The Future’ is more balanced.Īlthough exhibiting a hearty reverence for those idols, while referencing everyone from Bob Dylan and The Band to Bill Withers and The Beatles, they’ve crafted a thematically watertight record that, by addressing contemporary tribulations, gives these songs a unique identity of their own. Taking their classicist cues from hallowed styles such as Motown, country, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll, it’s an almighty challenge to make original music that isn’t merely a second-rate homage. ![]() It can’t be easy for Rateliff and company. When he steps up to the microphone, it’s as if some unstoppable force has entered his body, using him as a conduit to express elemental truths about life, love and, on this soul-searching record, the existential crisis that overwhelmed him during the pandemic. Backed by the wonderfully expressive Night Sweats, a joyous eight piece ensemble who dispatch vintage Muscle Shoals R&B textures with class to burn, Nathaniel Rateliff never sounds like a man who consciously writes and sings music. ![]()
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