Hot Buttered Rum Details New Album ‘Uphill Highway’ & Shares ‘Outrage Machine’ Single

Hot Buttered Rum will release their ninth studio album, Uphill Highway, on November 7. The San Francisco-based outfit previewed the record with the lead single, “Outrage Machine.”

The group employed several special guests across the album’s 10 tracks. Contributions came from Allie Kral, Elliott Peck, Kyle Ledson, Sam Chase, Audio Angel, Leif Karlstrom and Wally Ingram.

“Getting so many Bay Area folks on board was joy upon joy,” Hot Buttered Rum’s Erik Yates said.

Hot Buttered Rum will celebrate the release of Uphill Highway with a hometown concert on November 8 at The Chapel in San Francisco, with T Sisters also set to perform.

“Outrage Machine” arrived with a Josh Clark-directed video. HBR’s Nat Keefe shared insight into the new song.

“When social media came online, I thought it’d be a democratizing force in the world, give everyone a voice, and connect me to interesting people and ideas,” Keefe said. “Then they began turning the knobs to increase engagement, which usually meant sending the most angry, reactive content to the top of the feed.”

Watch the “Outrage Machine” video:

Uphill Highway Tracklist

1. Uphill Highway
2. Outside Looking In
3. Sturgeon Moon
4. Outrage Machine
5. Not Falling For It
6. Time To Rise
7. Lucky Doing This At All
8. Any Other Way
9. Let’s Fall Apart Together
10. Rearview Mirror