Sarah Shook & The Disarmers with Mali Velasquez

Its obvious listening to Sarah Shook and the Disarmers clear-eyed, biting, and unafraid songs that integrity is the most important thing to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, country-punk outfit. A lot of artists are in this industry for fame, recognition, and money but those things dont mean anything to me, says bandleader River Shook. Songwriting is it for me. Its the only real healthy coping mechanism Ive ever had. Its life-saving. I dont care about any superficial things when Im making a record. On their resonant fourth album Revelations, produced by Shook and out March 29 via Thirty Tigers, these raw and resilient tracks come first. Throughout, Shooks deft storytelling documents regular people getting by and keeping on, all presented without filter or pretension.