The Revivalists, playing Nautica on Aug. 6, find catharsis on new album
Singer-guitarist David Shaw, who grew up in Cincinnati and spent a few years in Columbus, OH, had been in bands prior to forming the Revivalists in 2007, but he says he knew he was onto something from the moment that he met Revivalists co-founder Zack Feinberg, and the two launched the group.
“The city was still kind of fucked up, for lack of a better word,” he says. “There’s always an incredible music scene in New Orleans, and that was a time when people came together and rallied around the music. That’s just what we do here. Katrina was devastating, but it put the spotlight back on New Orleans and the things that were happening. Not a lot of people thought, ‘I’m going to go live in that place that’s 20 feet below sea level and just flooded.
The title track, a song that commences with shimmering guitars and soft vocals as it takes on a psychedelic rock vibe, came about during the height of the pandemic. Shaw would wake up in the middle of the night with terrible anxiety. The only way he could feel good was to go into his studio and start singing.
“We were looking at producers and what we wanted the album to sound like, and [Costey] has produced some of our favorite artists,” says Shaw. “He’s a killer engineer. We talked to a few different people, and we felt like he got us. He understood that we didn’t want someone coming in and imprinting his sound on us. We wanted someone to come in and understand who we are and make it all sound good — mix it well, make it real, keep it raw. That’s what he did, and that’s what we did.
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