Different bands dealt with the pandemic in different ways. For most it involved hitting the panic button hard and wondering how the hell they were going to make it through with careers and/or minds intact. For Rival Sons, the past few years appear to have been a time of looking inwards and taking stock.
The Long Beach band’s last album pre-pandemic was 2019’s exhilarating Feral Roots. It was a great record, but it felt like they were stuck in a holding pattern – albums were released, the needle flickered, but things never truly kicked to the next level, while they were overtaken in the public’s imagination by Greta Van Fleet.
