Rival Sons second album of the year, LIGHTBRINGER, finally has a release date. DARKFIGHTER’s sibling is scheduled for release on October 20 via Low Country Sound. The band has just shared a first excerpt, “Sweet Life”, which you can discover below.
Speaking about the new album, guitarist Scott Holiday sayd :
“When you do two albums back-to-back like this, there are a lot of things to think about. The first record has to pack enough of a punch and tell enough of a story for the second half to have an even bigger impact. We balanced them out with energy and meaning, but the follow-up always needed to deliver a bigger blow. I think LIGHTBRINGER provides this.”
Singer Jay Buchanan has also commented:
“DARKFIGHTER is a new Rival Sons, and LIGHTBRINGER is the clear definition of what we are now. We broke ground on DARKFIGHTER, but LIGHTBRINGER is a step beyond the personal innovation and exploration. It goes a little further. We really took everything into our own hands and pushed to see how far we could go. It was a self-exploration to see who we were and who we’ll be now. We had more friction and compromise than ever, because we isolated the bare essence of where we needed to go — and then we went there.”
About “Sweet Life” he adds
“It’s the most old-school Rival Sons song on either of these two records. It has all of the early elements of what Rival Sons is and was. It was born out of my love mid-sixties rock like The Animals, The Kinks, and the bands I was raised on. It’s a bit of a break from all of the heavy subject matter too; it’s a barnburner.”
Rival Sons will be touring in Europe this autumn. The band will be at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on November 12. Tickets for this show are available on the venue’s website.