The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Nathaniel Rateliff

Nathaniel Rateliff is a soul singer from Denver who has been making music for more than 20 years but his career switched to nitro when he pressed into service a seven piece band called the Night Sweats and released Son Of A Bitch (July’15).  The LA Times said it’s a “...flawless, once-in-a-blue-moon melding of supercharged summer rave-up (and) audience singalong” and What The Ruckus was sure it's “soul perfection.” The band's music is described by Gig Wise as “...a tour de force of electric energy that fuses the most accessible facets of modern American soul, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll.”

 

 

 

Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats are inspired by music like The Platters, Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Nathaniel Rateliff is often compared to Van Morrison and the band’s sound to Booker T and The MG’s.  Son Of A Bitch or S.O.B. as it’s officially known as, is about a piss artist with a broken heart. But women come and women go but the piss is always there. It’s all handclaps and singalong phrasing and is as fun as fuck. Rousing gospel meets rhythm and blues with rock trimmings. Get yer jive on because S.O.B. is one of the best indie songs of 2015.

 

“Son of a bitch, give me a drink
One more night escaping me”

 

 Shit you need to know:
 

The song S.O.B is the first single off Nathaniel Rateliff’s fourth album Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Aug’15), but the debut for his collaboration with the Night Sweats.

Son Of A Bitch has been called “anthemic” and “...the catchiest song he’s ever recorded” by Hey Reverb.

N.P.R said the new album was “an upbeat old-time dance record” and “vintage soul.”

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats was produced by indie pop rocker Richard Swift  who has done graft for The Shins and Foxygen.

Nathaniel Rateliff is influenced by The Platters, The Moonglows, The Soul Stirrers, Sam and Dave, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, The Allman Brothers, Booker T & The MG's.

Nathaniel Rateliff has mad love for The Band, Damien Jurado and Bob Dylan.

The band are signed to Stax Records and have been called a “modern take on the Motown sound.”

For more good tunes from Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats try I Need Never Get Old or Howling At Nothing.

 

 

Slippery seconds is random. Canadian indie rock band The Meligrove Band went park with this brilliant song Tortaruga that sweats glam swagger. God bless these young gents.

“And no one's making it out alive,
Still we're walking, and we're running,
And we're telling all our lovers "goodbye"