There’s a specific kind of song that arrives like a phone call at 3 a.m. — urgent, unignorable, and often carrying news you didn’t know you needed to hear. That’s exactly how The Revivalists’ David Shaw describes the arrival of “Get It Honest,” the emotional new single and title track from the New Orleans octet’s forthcoming sixth studio album, out Friday, July 24 via Concord Records.

Shaw, who has been sober for nearly two decades, was jolted awake one night with a lyric already forming in his head: “Well, I’m so bored, so bored of being sober / Maybe I’ll go downtown, to some bar down on Decatur.” Rather than roll over, he grabbed his phone and started typing next to his sleeping wife. By the following afternoon, the song was finished — a candid, unvarnished look at the pull of the past and the pact you make with yourself to keep walking forward anyway.

“‘Get It Honest’ came to me in a dream,” Shaw says. “It woke me up and pretty much demanded my attention right then and there. 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.”

That kind of hard-earned clarity runs through the entire record. Produced once again by GRAMMY-winner Rich Costey (Vampire Weekend, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie) at Vermont’s Guilford Sound — the same studio that birthed 2023’s Pour It Out Into the Night — Get It Honest is unapologetically a grown-folks album. Seven of the band’s eight members are now fathers, and the 12-track collection reflects that gravitational shift: songs about shedding the weight of your history, leaning into gratitude, and figuring out how you actually want to sound after nearly two decades on the road.

The album’s blockbuster opener, “Heart Stop,” is already climbing toward the Top 10 at Triple A radio, powered by an unforgettable first-person-view music video shot inside a classic New Orleans shotgun house. Co-written by Shaw with 3x GRAMMY-nominated New Orleans musician Andriu “Yàno” Yanovski and drummer PJ Howard, the track finds Shaw howling toward the future: “I’m not afraid of the future comin’ my way / I’m over wasting my time.” Watch the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRevivalists

Fans won’t have to wait long to hear these songs in the wild. The Get It Honest Tour launches July 14 with two sold-out nights at Nantucket’s Chicken Box and runs through November, featuring headline dates, top-billed festival sets, a special run supporting The Red Clay Strays (including Madison Square Garden on August 9), the band’s annual return to Red Rocks Amphitheatre (September 25), and the inaugural Otherside of Paradise at Sea cruise from Miami to Nassau (November 3–7). In partnership with Concerted, the band is also offering an “honest ticket” program — two hours of community service in exchange for a ticket.

Pre-orders and pre-saves for Get It Honest are available now. Tickets to the tour are on sale beginning today at 10 a.m. local time at therevivalists.com/tour.

Some songs you chase for years. Others show up at your bedside at 3 a.m. and refuse to leave until you write them down. “Get It Honest” is the latter — and it might just be the most vulnerable, most necessary thing The Revivalists have ever put to tape.