Horse Feathers: recording new album, fall tour
Horse Feathers are heading out east for a fall tour, leaving their Portland home on September 26 and returning October 14. Two weeks before the tour Horse Feathers will be performing with Laura Gibson and Dolorean in Portland at Towne Lounge. They will dash the US with a show at the Knitting Factory in New York City as the pinnacle of their tour. This summer they embarked on a “highly successful” national tour, and spent a day with Daytrotter to record a session.
Horse Feather’s debut of Words Are Dead in 2006 garnered them a Plug Award nomination for Americana album of the year, beaten out by Band of Horses‘ Everything All The Time. They’re currently in the studio recording their follow-up, breaking out the banjo, mandolin, violin, saw, cello, viola, guitar, and piano.
Peter Broderick and Justin Ringle recorded all of the tracks for the Words are Dead album, releasing it on Lucky Madison. The new album will feature Heather Broderick on cello, celeste, and vocals.
Jason Ringle shared with Puddlegum, “Things are going well. I would say at this point the record is a little bit lighter and more orchestrated.”
During their session with Daytrotter, Ringle explained one of their new songs, Father of Failure:
“I’d written it this spring after one of my best friend’s cousins (who I had also known for quite a while) just had died by his own hand. The song isn’t about that necessarily but I was kind of reacting to it musically nonetheless. The mood of the song is in debt to that incident but the lyrics are a bit more impressionistic. I was combining my own experiences in a way with a made up scenario. It’s something I find myself doing in some of my songs.” (Daytrotter)
Horse Feathers – Finch On Saturday
Download: Horse Feathers at eMusic
9/7 Portland,OR@ Towne Lounge (MFNW) w/ Dolorean / Laura Gibson, Portland, Oregon
9/15 Mt. Hood 3900 ft. Festival Government Camp, Oregon
9/26 Minneapolis,MN@400 Bar
9/27 Ames,IA@ Maintenance Shop
9/28 Northfield,MN@ Carleton College
9/30 Chicago,IL@ Beat Kitchen
10/1 Upland,IN@ Taylor Univ
10/3 Cambridge,MA@ Middle East
10/4 Albany,NY@tba
10/7 Montreal,QC@ Pop Montreal Fest
10/8 Middletown,CT@ Wesleyan College
10/9 New York,NY@ Knitting Factory
10/14 Denver,CO@ Hi Dive