Get It Honest Single Out Now

The title track and musical centerpiece of the upcoming album Get It Honest is out now. The new track sees David looking back over the nearly two decades since he last had a drink, stirred in the middle of the night to write down some lines: “Well, I’m so bored, so bored of being sober/Maybe I’ll go downtown, to some bar down on Decatur.” It was the first time he’d ever had such a pre-dawn epiphany, the first time a song had ever arrived so urgently and simply. Shaw finished the song the next day, its verses drawing the battle lines between what he has been and can still become.

“‘Get It Honest’ came to me in a dream,” says David Shaw. “It woke me up and pretty much demanded my attention right then and there. So there I was at 3 AM, lying in bed next to my wife, typing out the lyrics to what would become the song. Songs can come in all sorts of ways and carry various messages, too, but the most important takeaway from this for me is that they always find a way to hit you right when you need them the most or maybe when you can actually ‘hear’ them.”

The Revivalists’ sixth studio LP and first all-new full-length release in over three years, Get It Honest, arrives everywhere on Friday, July 24. Vinyl pre-orders/pre-saves are available now. The album includes such mature and magnetic highlights as the introspective “Razorblades and Runways” and the colossal opening track, “Heart Stop,” both available everywhere now.