Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

are one of the fakest groups that i've come across. Seriously, this is some terrible shite.

the guy nathan is trying to be black I guess? Copping plantation hymns and stealing slave field melodies... just seems so ridiculous to me on so many levels even with their music video in a jail (with no black people except his two horn players)

forgive me for any "edginess"... this just annoys me as much as mumford and sons (for different reasons)

here's a paragraph from an article:

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After establishing himself as frontman of the anthem-rock outfit Born In The Flood in the 2000s, Rateliff pursued a solo career of soft, heart-grinding ballads in the tradition of Leonard Cohen or Nick Drake. Following 2010’s In Memory of Loss and 2013’s Falling Faster Than You Can Run, Rateliff found himself the touring companion of bumpkin-darlings like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers

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they used to be a folk band and decided to become a bluesy soul band because of st paul and the broken bones popularity?... does anyone else feel this way?
just comes off very inauthentic to me.

here's their single:
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