Description
"South of Here", the fourth studio album from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, takes a lifetime of pain and trauma and transmutes it into a stirring and soulful rumination on love, loss, hope, and determination. Following "And It's Still Alright", Rateliff's beloved 2020 solo LP, and "The Future", The Night Sweats' acclaimed 2021 release, the new album unites both sides of his immense talents: emotionally potent, vivid storytelling and the raw R&B revivalism that has led the band to global success over the last decade.
Songs like "David and Goliath", "Heartless", "Get Used to the Night" and "South of Here" tell with brutal honesty of broken relationships, while others like "Remember I Was a Dancer", "The Center of Me", "Everybody Wants Something" and "Times Makes Fools of Us All" are cinematic portrayals of self-doubt and lost innocence.
The band treads a fine line between biting truths and joyful noise, delivering 11 original tracks with exquisite warmth and empathy. Bound by the struggle for identity and the search for belonging, "South of Here" resonates with the realization that we are all in this beautiful mess together.
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1 Side A: David and Goliath
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2 Heartless
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3 Remember I Was a Dancer
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4 Get Used to the Night
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5 South of Here
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6 Side B: Everybody Wants Something
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7 Center of Me
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8 Cars in the Desert
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9 I Would Like to Heal
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10 Call Me (Whatever You Like)
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11 Time Makes Fools of Us All