Night Beats

Danny Lee Blackwell's Night Beats give listeners a guided tour of a wide range of vintage sounds from raucous garage rock and beer-soaked blues to trippy psychedelia and good old rock & roll. Early works like their self-titled 2011 debut album displayed a swaggering attitude and a scrappy approach to playing and singing, after which Blackwell charted an unpredictable course. 2019's Myth of a Man polished their sound up nicely with the help of producer Dan Auerbach, while 2021's Outlaw R&B was more of a blown-out garage rock session. After a detour to record an album as Abraxas with guitarist Carolina Faruolo (2022's Monte Carlo) where the duo explored global psychedelia, the newly inspired Blackwell rewrote the Night Beats' playbook again with a record that explored new influences (funk, hip-hop, and soul to name but a few) in a much looser fashion that ever before.