Larimer Lounge Presents The Wild Feathers with Nathan Graham on Wednesday, January 29th.
A decade plus into their career now, The Wild Feathers over the course of four studio albums, a rarities release, and a live album, have been labeled everything. Some have immediately checked a box for Americana – and they wouldn’t be wrong. Others may lean on a version of rock: Country-rock, folk-rock, heartland rock. They’d all be right, too. Blues? A Southern flare? Occasional punk attitude? It’s all in there.
But as a band who are constantly committed to pushing forward, no label put on The Wild Feathers truly sticks around for long.
The longtime Nashville band returns this year with Sirens, a new LP of road-worn, sharply-woven tales chronicling a life worth living, love worth holding and the hardearned lessons found along the ride. For the band, it’s the album they’ve been building towards making for years. A true statement piece. “I love being part of a band that is always growing and evolving,” said co-founding Wild Feathers member Ricky Young. “We want to keep challenging ourselves to make new music while always continuing to grow and be challenged. For us, this is the best version of what we’ve always done.”
He continued “We’re not the band we were 10 years ago. We’re much better writers now. Much better performers. We’re much better people. We’ve grown a lot.” To cut the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2021 album Alvarado – the band’s debut for New West Records – the band decamped from Music City, U.S.A., to Los Angeles for sessions with producer Shooter Jennings (known for his work with Brandi Carlile, Turnpike Troubadours and Tanya Tucker, among others) at Dave’s Room in North Hollywood.
And after sweating and straining over small details on the self-produced Alvarado, the band returned to focusing on playing some of the head-turning music listeners expect from a Wild Feathers release. This includes “Pretending,” a stop-you-in-your-tracks piano ballad that’s bound to send lighters into the sky when the group hits the road in support of Sirens.
“We just wanted to write a shit load of songs, find a great producer and let go of the reins a little bit,” King said. He continued, “We were like, let’s just do it like a band.”
That freewheelin’ do-it-like-a-band spirit? It comes through on Sirens with songs like “Slow Down,” a pensive slow-burn that wouldn’t be out of place in a 1980s John Hughes flick, and “Don’t Know,” a rabble-rousing dose of surfy-punk delivered with layered gang vocals and a rolling bass line.
With their new album, heeding the Sirens call has never sounded this welcoming before.
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