Atlantic Records

If you’re patiently awaiting the follow-up to NEEDTOBREATHE’s 2009 album The Outsiders, the wait is almost over. For the past three months the band have been holed up in a studio near their hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, working on their highly anticipated fourth full-length album. In the first of our two-part interview with frontman Bear Rinehart we learn how close the album is to being finished, get some clues about what it might sound like and find out why these days NEEDTOBREATHE are the earliest rising act in rock ‘n’ roll, literally.

It’s ten in the morning. What are you doing awake?
[Laughs.] For most of the year we normally sleep in but it’s very organized these days, it’s pretty funny. We spend two or three years living the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and then we try to pull it all together, so we’re running every morning and trying to eat healthy now that we’re making a record.

How often have you been going into the studio to work on these songs?
We go pretty much every morning. We’ve been on the road so much for the past few years that we decided to have our producer come to us this time, so it’s been a little like having a normal job. We’re in the studio from 11 to 11 every day, but it’s been great to be able to go home and sleep in your own bed every night.

When were most of these songs written?
As soon as we finish a record we start writing for the next one so we’ve been writing this one for the last couple of years—and every time we have a day or two here or there we go in and demo a new song at our home studio. For the last couple of months we’ve been making the record in there.

What’s that process been like so far?

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