Into The Mystery

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Southern Rock

• twangy
• earnest
• confessional

About

Like so many other more-or-less homebound artists, South Carolina’s NEEDTOBREATHE made the most of the pandemic, creatively speaking. Following 2020’s <i>Out of Body</i> and 2021’s <i>Live From the Woods, Vol. 2</i> (which they recorded at socially distanced outdoor concerts in Tennessee), <i>Into the Mystery</i>, their eighth album and second since founding member Bo Rinehart departed, continues the band’s wondrous and wide-eyed exploration of what it means to be human—and how that shifts within one’s faith system. Swelling, string-led ballads (“Don’t Throw All the Good Things Away” with Natalie Hemby), starry-skied epics (“I Am Yours”), upbeat folk-pop ditties (the Carrie Underwood-guesting “I Wanna Remember”)—these songs keep God at their center, but as the album title suggests, there’s a pervading sense of searching that’s always guiding the band’s broader philosophy. Or, as Bear Rinehart puts it on “Sunshine,” “I hope we're asking questions till the day that we die.”

via Apple Music

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