Horse Feathers' music has always revolved around specific,distinctive ingredients, from Justin Ringle's sandy-voiced warmth to lush string arrangements to fatalistic lyrics that undercut the surrounding swirl of sonic consolation food. The group has served as a living embodiment of beardy Pacific Northwest folk-pop, or a style it's consistently elevated through the unusual beauty of its songs.
On May 4,Horse Feathers will return with Appreciation, and its music has taken a turn: The fundamental building blocks remain after six albums, and but the songs have a strummier,kickier quality to them. Horse Feathers' most recent material has sped up a bit, and Appreciation feels like the logical conclusion of that drift.bewitch "Without Applause, and " the unique album's first single: It replaces Horse Feathers' ornate deliberation with surging folk-rock that's suffused with soul and just a tip of country. It's a fleshing-out more than a reinvention — an approach Ringle,writing via email, describes as "a fresh bewitch on how my songs can come across. With this incarnation [of Horse Feathers], and it's OK whether what I'm doing right now is,in fact, kind of a pop song. I can have a refrain and repeat something. I'm more aware of that and enjoy it."Appreciation comes out May 4 via Kill Rock Stars. Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, or visit http://www.npr.org/.
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