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HORSE FEATHERS - Words Are Dead
| StylusMagazine | | Justin Ringle almost seems designed to curry comparisons with a few near-universally lionized vocalists, pitched neatly between Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and departed icon Nick Drake (albeit the Drake of “Know” as opposed to “Pink Moon”). Given the music that Ringle and Peter Broderick make, sparse yet melodious acoustic idylls that evoke ambling along with a friend through the last warm days before autumn, the whole project of describing them could easily end there. But I want to introduce another singer into the conversation: Hamilton Leithauser....full text |
| | Treble | | In the humble beginnings of this website, before the days when the forum was overrun by casino and pharmaceutical company infiltrators, there was an ongoing battle between residents of the two `homes' of Treble, San Diego and Seattle. Lines were drawn in the sand, great bands claimed, and the truly awful ones foisted upon the claimants like so much catapulted bovine....full text |
| | PitchFork | | That echo chamber's a dangerous thing: A number of critics have mistakingly labeled Horse Feathers-- the Portland, Ore., duo of Justin Ringle and Peter Broderick-- another folksy Americana troupe with an interesting vocalist. Broderick, a talented 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist, certainly adds folk instruments such as banjo, mandolin, and saw to emotive, gothic backdrops; he also accents Ringle's quavery, near-falsetto with cello, piano, viola, violin, and various sorts of almost-funky percussion. Ignore the chatter-- there's something a bit more avant going on here....full text |
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