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Night Beats to Release Outlaw R&B May 7; Stream “New Day”

By now it’s a tried and maybe-sometimes-true ethic: if you see something, say something. Well, I saw the new Night Beats video for “New Day” and I’m saying something. Mostly what I’m saying is it’s a cool bit of against-the-genre-grain songcraft, and also that there’s plenty of other Night Beats stuff to dig into until the new album, Outlaw R&B, arrives this Spring through Fuzz Club Records. Like four other albums. And singles. And splits. And so on.

Interesting to note that this is the second record to be posted about here to touch thematically on Californian wildfires — the other was Grayceon‘s latest — though I think it’s entirely possible they’re doing so in successive seasons. Nothing inspires like apocalypse! Plenty to go around, certainly.

I’ve got digging to do through the Night Beats back catalog ahead of hopefully getting to check out the new album, but in the meantime, here’s this from Fuzz Club:

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Night Beats – Outlaw R&B

On May 7th 2021, Night Beats – the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell – will release their fifth full-length, ‘Outlaw R&B’, via Fuzz Club Records. The album arrives following the 2019 ‘Myth of A Man’ LP (produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and released by Heavenly Recordings) as well as last year’s ‘That’s All You Got’ 7”. Made during the height of the California wildfires (where Blackwell currently resides), rioting in the streets and a nation in lockdown, the raucous technicolour rock’n’roll of ‘Outlaw R&B’ is a call to rejoice in some sorely needed post-apocalyptic hedonism.

You can pre-order the album and stream the first single ‘New Day’ here: nightbeats.lnk.to/outlaw

Blackwell says of the album: “Outlaw R&B is music for the borderless, the free, the outcasts and the forgotten. The outlaw is the runner. Those whose minds aren’t sold by perfect pitch and clean fingernails. Through this medium you can escape the confines of mental feudalism and bask in the euphoric glow of psychedelic R&B.” Where the last Night Beats LP was a distinctly polished and soulful affair, ‘Outlaw R&B’ sees the band return to their natural habitat: riotous, acid-fried rock’n’roll to lose your head to.

“New Day is my postcard from purgatory. Upon going into lockdown I holed myself up with Akira Kurosawa movies and canned goods. This is the result of sleepless nights while hearing the world crumble outside my window. I sing of desperation and loss, while grinning in the face of an uncertain future.”

1. Stuck In The Morning
2. Revolution
3. New Day
4. Hell In Texas
5. Thorns
6. Never Look Back
7. Shadow
8. Crypt
9. Cream Johnny
10. Ticket
11. Holy Roller

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Night Beats, “New Day” official video

Night Beats, Outlaw R&B (2020)

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