NEEDTOBREATHE Confirms New Dave Cobb-Produced Album ‘The Long Surrender’

NEEDTOBREATHE convened with acclaimed producer Dave Cobb for their newly announced album, The Long Surrender. The record due out on March 27 via MCA is previewed today with the title track.

The Long Surrender follows NEEDTOBREATHE’s 2023 LP, Caves. For their new record, the band teamed with nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb to cut the collection at his Savannah, Georgia studio.

“They came in with open hearts and gratitude, focused on nothing but the truth,” Cobb said of the recording process. “You can feel it in Bear’s voice and in the musicianship throughout the record.”

As Cobb noted, NEEDTOBREATHE came into the sessions with “open hearts,” which included a new songwriting process for frontman Bear Rinehart, which he detailed:

“In the beginning I didn’t even think I was writing for a record—I was just writing in a therapeutic way, trying to get my head around what I wanted my life to look like going forward. There’s always been a guardedness as far as how personal I get in the songs, or how overtly I express certain things, but this time I was writing everything down as I was going through it. It felt like the songs were coming from a different place, and where we ended up almost feels like a whole new band.”

“This album really clarified that, as an artist, I’ve got to put my convictions in front of anything else. I poured myself into it without trying to shape it for anyone or anything, and that’s what we’re going to keep doing from here on out. It’s definitely a better indicator of where we’re headed than where we’ve ever been, and in a lot of ways it feels it’s our very first record.”

Preview The Long Surrender with the title track below:

The Long Surrender Tracklist:

1. The Long Surrender
2. Say It Now
3. Highlands
4. Sing To Me Savannah
5. Where You Call Home
6. Strangeness Of It All
7. Take Me Dancing
8. The Door
9. Growing Slow
10. Momma Loves Me (feat. The Red Clay Strays)
11. Take The Blame
12. Spread The Ashes