
All of that in one got me here and helped me write this record, too.” I feel like I've grown as a musician and a performer, and as a writer and singer. “I just kind of feel like I've taken everything I've learned from the Night Sweats and the shows we play and our time on the road. “There's a lot of similarities in there for sure,” he says. Fans of Rateliff’s earlier work might notice the sound of the new record is a throwback to his pre-Night Sweats albums In Memory of Loss (2010) and Falling Faster Than You Can Run (2013). The moments of melancholy and introspection that surround the record is buoyed by hope and resilience in overcoming personal difficulties. I wanted to be able to talk about that in a song so that it creates a conversation for the listener, and for other people to be able to be vulnerable that thing and talk about it-and then also try to find hope in there and not to feel so devastated and so lost.” And so I let all of it come out, all the things that I wanted to be able to say, to let him know that even though he was gone that I recognized and shared that same unexplainable brokenness.


I immediately felt like I was trying to say something to Richard. “I think I had the phrase ‘rush on’ in my head.

“I don't really know where it came from,” the singer says. The other song inspired by Swift is the album’s emotional and stark ballad “Rush On,” which is further elevated by Ratefliff's very powerfully moving vocal performance.
