- Record Label: Fantasy
- Release Date: Mar 9, 2018
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Mar 5, 2018With Tearing at the Seams, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have distillated the ups and downs life throws at you into a vibrant collection of many-hued vignettes; some make you smile, some make you well up, and some make for the ideal accompaniment to good ol’ sauced-up revelry. Whatever the case, they’ll all make you feel that thing inside you. Soul.
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Mar 9, 2018On Tearing at the Seams, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats show off their hard work, their tightening as a band, and their high energy, irresistible performances.
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MojoMar 2, 2018The Night Sweats' woozy, loose grooves are hypnotising and are perfect accompaniment to Rateliff's gravel-worn rasp. [Apr 2018, p.94]
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Q MagazineMar 2, 2018Tearing At The Seams more accurately captures the feel of Rateliff's stirring live performances. [Apr 2018, p.112]
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UncutMar 2, 2018Even more commanding on the follow-up [to its debut]. [Apr 2018, p.32]
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Mar 2, 2018It’s a real coming of age for them as their songs, emerging from woodshedding sessions with producer Richard Swift in a studio in Rodeo, New Mexico, are spontaneous, immediate and really hit home.
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Mar 9, 2018The Night Sweats are at their best when the music reflects Rateliff’s own distinctive take on a musical style that has saved him, in more ways than one, from a less fortunate life. Tearing at the Seams doesn’t always reach those heights, but the music is exhilarating when it does.
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Mar 19, 2018Sure there are obvious bands they can be liked to--The Band, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding--but its pace and passion make it a record to enjoy for itself, rather than its influences.
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Mar 9, 2018At times, he can push his influences a little hard--"Hey Mama" is essentially a mash note to Van Morrison--but the impressive thing about Tearing at the Seams is how he and his band seem to be synthesizing their clear influences into their own voice. That's why Tearing at the Seams works.
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Mar 12, 2018Some of the more introspective, low-key songs (Still Out There Running, Babe I Know) are less memorable, however, and perhaps a clue as to why his earlier tilts at success came to nothing. But as with that debut album with the Night Sweats, you get the sense that this material only really comes alive on stage.
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Mar 8, 2018Rateliff can be guilty of overwriting, as in the jumble of raging-wildfire images that drag down "Still Out There Running." His husky voice can lack the suppleness of classic soul singers; when he taps into his inner Sam Cooke on the dusky "Babe I Know," he sounds more fatigued than uplifted. Yet even when he overshoots, Rateliff's restless throwback sound feels like it's moving toward real revelations.
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Feb 14, 2020Righteous soul at its absolute finest... with a twist of Rock for good measure
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Dec 1, 2018This album is awesome. Like Sam & Dave made music with The Band. He's definitely leaving it all out there and we can all benefit!
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Mar 15, 2018