Despite a 20-year history that includes all the accolades of an iconic band, GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum
band NEEDTOBREATHE came into their latest studio album with a much different frame of mind. They still felt they
had something to prove. In truth, this is a band who have loomed large for years, leveraging a unique fusion of
modern rock, purpose-driven soul and irresistible pop appeal into a stat line which puts them in exceedingly rare
company. Formed in South Carolina in 2001, NEEDTOBREATHE has grown and evolved to occupy a unique position
in the modern genre landscape. They’ve placed five Number One albums all across the
Billboard chart spectrum,
from Rock and Alternative. They’ve racked up two billion career streams and scored multi-platinum chart topping
hits – deep-feeling anthems with a spiritual conscious like “Brother” (feat. Gavin DeGraw), “Who Am I,” “Let’s Stay
Home Tonight” and dozens more. And they’ve done it all while filling venues across the globe, either as headliners
or with a diverse array of superstars like Taylor Swift, OneRepublic and Tim McGraw. Ask their fans and it’s been two
decades of spirit-mining songs, master musicianship and elemental artistry, digging deep to create a series of sonic
monuments to the human condition. Yet for all they’ve built, the five-piece group remains a veiled figure in the
shadowed fringe of modern rock to some – so on their ninth studio album,
CAVES, they’re coming out into the light.
Due September 15,
CAVES is a collection of awe-inspiring melodies, breathtaking instrumentation and epic-scale
energy, giving the band’s soul-probing approach a bigger, more expansive new scope.