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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 than ever before. The group was founded by singer/guitarist Blackwell (born Danny Rajan Billingsley), the sole constant member of the band's various lineups. Blackwell left his native Dallas for the Pacific Northwest in 2009; during his days in the Lone Star State, Blackwell played in a variety of bands, including the Pecan Sandies, the Tempers, and White Light Fever (the latter act released an album in 2007, Heavy Knife Blues). He went to Seattle for college, and soon made himself known in the city's rock scene; he persuaded a friend from Texas, James Traeger, to move to the Northwest and help him start a band. With Blackwell on guitar and vocals and Traeger behind the traps, they began playing out as a two-piece before recruiting bassist Tarek Wegner, a veteran of the bands Paris Spleen and Drug Purse. Night Beats soon set out on tour and made a name for themselves with their live show, and in 2010, they self-released a single, "H-Bomb." The 7" was picked up by Chicago indie Trouble in Mind Records, which reissued it just a few months later. A split 10" with the UFO Club on the Reverberation Appreciation Society label arrived in early 2011, followed by Night Beats' self-titled debut LP on Trouble in Mind. The trio remained busy, and their sound evolved over various single and compilation releases. Their follow-up LP, Sonic Bloom, was released in 2013. In 2014, bassist Wegner was replaced by newcomer Jakob Bowden, and the following year Night Beats signed a deal with London's Heavenly Recordings. With a retooled lineup and a greater focus and clarity to their sound, they delivered their third LP, Who Sold My Generation, in early 2016. Night Beats went through a tumultuous period that led to Traeger and Bowden leaving the band, but for their next album, Blackwell teamed up with producer Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, who brought him to Nashville and recruited a band of first-call session players to help shape Blackwell's material. The result was the January 2019 album Myth of a Man, which toned down the harder edges of Blackwell's music in favor of a more pop-oriented feel that incorporated elements of vintage country and R&B. In spring of the same year, he issued Night Beats Perform the Sonics' Boom, a note-for-note rendition of the 1966 second LP from a key influence. After a move to Los Angeles, Blackwell began recording an album inspired by the kind of unhinged garage rock the Sonics were known for, and the much more raucous Outlaw R&B was issued in 2021. While working on that album, he also began recording songs with guitarist Carolina Faruolo under the name Abraxas. Digging into a spectrum of influences such as Tropicalia, Turkish psychedelia, and a variety of Latin rhythms, their album Monte Carlo came out in late 2022 on the Suicide Squeeze label. The experience seemingly freed Blackwell to explore new sounds under the Night Beats name as well. 2023's Rajan covered some of the same territory as the Abraxas project, but also filtered in psychedelic soul, rambling modern blues, dusty hip-hop, and deep funk along the way to becoming the trippiest, most varied Night Beats album to date.
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