{"product_id":"forever_on_your_side_niles_city_sound_sessions","title":"Forever On Your Side (Niles City Sound Sessions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eForever On Your Side (Niles City Sound Sessions) is a four-track EP by South Carolina rock band NEEDTOBREATHE — Bear Rinehart on vocals, Bo Rinehart on guitar, Seth Bolt on bass, and Josh Lovelace on piano and organ — released July 13, 2018 on Atlantic Records. The EP was recorded with the Fort Worth, Texas production trio Niles City Sound, best known for their work with Leon Bridges, and represented a significant departure from the band's usual workflow: NEEDTOBREATHE typically self-produces at their own Plantation Studios in Summerville, South Carolina, making the Fort Worth sessions a deliberate creative experiment. As frontman Bear Rinehart described it, the band cut seven songs in a compressed window of time, selected the strongest four, and turned them around quickly — \"the fastest turnaround we've ever had.\" The sessions aimed for a more organic, nearly live-to-tape feel, and the resulting four tracks have a warmth and immediacy that distinguishes them from the band's more polished studio output. The EP was reissued in May 2026 by Omnivore Recordings on translucent white 12\" vinyl, newly re-cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl\/Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross its four tracks, the EP moves through a range of emotional registers while maintaining a consistent soulful, roots-inflected rock atmosphere. \"Bridges Burn\" opens on a slow-burn introspective note, \"Darling\" leans into longing with an unhurried ballad sensibility, and \"Bullets\" delivers a moodier, more driving energy. The closing title track — the only song on the EP that was previously unheard before release — is a collaboration with Nashville husband-and-wife duo Johnnyswim, and functions as an anthemic pledge of love and loyalty. CCM Magazine described the EP as finding the band \"up to what they do best: crafting catchy pop-rock songs packed with honest emotions and wrapped up in an ever-evolving yet reliable sound,\" and Jesus Freak Hideout called it \"a solid and too short addition to the NEEDTOBREATHE catalogue.\" The band launched a 37-city North American tour in support of the EP on August 10, 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - White Vinyl","offer_id":53625531859258,"sku":"38477","price":35.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_3.08.46_PM.jpeg?v=1781809905","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/forever_on_your_side_niles_city_sound_sessions","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}