The Future LP

For the recording, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats escaped to Nathaniels new Colorado studio to write an albums worth of songs, shedding light on their unique observations and songwriting reflecting on our current times. While recognizable, the new work has evolved and pushes the band to a new level.

I look at the album overall as a big question, notes Rateliff. When I was writing the record we were in the middle of a pandemic and our future looked pretty bleak. I just continue to try to write from a place of hope. Then my own neurosis, and maybe being a libra gets in the way, and I cant make up my mind. There is this constant back and forth battle in me personally and I am sure that comes out in my writing.

Recorded at Rateliffs own Broken Creek Studio outside of Denver, The Future was produced by Bradley Cook (Bon Iver, Kevin Morby, The War on Drugs) and R.M.B.the production trio of Rateliff, Patrick Meese (The Night Sweats) and James Barone (Beach House)who were the team behind Rateliffs acclaimed 2020 solo album, And Its Still Alright. Additional production was added by musician, engineer and producer Elijah Thompson (Father John Misty, Richard Swift) while Jenny Lewis, Jess Wolfe (Lucius) and Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso) contributed backing vocals.