Horse Feathers Play Music For Robots Showcase, Receive NPR Praise

September 13th, 2006

Portland, Oregon folk duo Horse Feathers will be making their debut Los Angeles appearance as part of a special Music For Robots showcase this Friday, September 15th. The band will also be appearing live on KXLU 88.9 FM at 4pm the day of the show. This news comes on the heals of a string of high praise from bloggers and online press, including a recent NPR Song of the Day pick in which NPR’s Stephen Thompson called the forthcoming Words Are Dead, "one of the year’s most accomplished and stirring debuts."

Details and quotes are below. Please get in touch regarding possible reviews and features, or if you’d simply like to check out the show!

Music for Robots & Fonogenic present:

Pink & Nosworthy
Horse Feathers
Hour of the Shipwreck

+DJ Robot Mark

Friday, September 15th
21+ $10
Tangier Lounge - 2138 Hillhurst Ave. Los Angeles

Praise for Words Are Dead:

"A virtually unknown duo from Portland, Oregon, Horse Feathers’ Justin Ringle and Peter Broderick have crafted one of the year’s most accomplished and stirring debuts in Words Are Dead. Often recalling the rustic delicacy of Iron and Wine — if it were soaked in strings and robbed of some of its stark clarity — Horse Feathers’ music radiates homey intimacy, as Broderick fleshes out Ringle’s voice and guitar with all manner of warmly unamplified instrumentation." - Stephen Thompson, NPR

“Hear hear! I hear Cat Power and M. Ward in the singer’s voice, but more than anything else, [“Finch On Saturday”] reminds me of Arthur Russell’s exquisite “A Little Lost”. As with “A Little Lost”, here the violin plays outside of all the dominant violin traditions: not as a classical instrument, nor as a fiddle, nor as part of a pop string section. Here it is a pop lead, playing slow and lovely riffs that define the song’s melody.” - Said The Gramophone

"A band like Horse Feathers has confidence. These two boys aren’t worried, and there is an assuredness that vibrates out of the strings. There is a purpose to every flick of bow, every crash of cymbal. The production is pin-drop perfect, and sometimes the sounds of the instruments themselves are enough. […] It’s not often I find myself coming back, again and again to an album. And I listen to this one at least once a day. It’s got just the right combination of melody and timelessness to make it infinitely listenable. It’s highly recommended." - Music for Robots

"At the risk of making extravagant claims on behalf of something that would likely never make such claims for itself, Words Are Dead is one of the best albums this year." - Shake Your Fist

"Due out at the end of this september is the absolutely phenomal debut from Horse Feathers. This duplet from Portland, oOegon have captured a beautiful folk sound across the twelve tracks of this album. Every once in awhile a great album sneaks up on you and knocks your socks off. their debut words are dead has done exactly that to tmwsiy*." - tmsiy*

"With a unique sound caught somewhere in between rustic American folk and acoustic intimacy, Horse Feathers are quickly becoming one of my favorite new bands." - I Guess I’m Floating

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