Hayfork, CA’s Vulture Feather have just dropped their latest single, “The Pleasant Obstacle,” and its official video. It comes from their new EP, Craving and Aversion, out 12/12 on Felte records (Ganser, Fashion Club, Shaki Tavi). Watch it below and find out more.
Pre-order Craving and Aversion here: https://vulturefeather.bandcamp.com/album/craving-and-aversion
Craving and Aversion features 4 tracks of hypnotic emotional rock that feels like a modern day Lungfish, with a little more muscle. Colin McCann’s vocals are very grandiose and bold in their delivery, like a desperate preacher trying to tell people the end is nigh. Heavy, pounding circular rhythms that are pure catharsis, it is the follow up to their sophomore album, It Will Be Like Now. It finds the band delving deeper into their unique practice of emotionally potent, post hardcore-indebted art rock.
The music of Vulture Feather seems designed specifically to cut through the insidious dread that has come to color our perception in these current times. It is a music of urgency, but also of deep empathy. Vulture Feather is undeniably a punk band, but it is also clear that they are spiritual practitioners of music. Upon seeing or hearing Vulture Feather play, there’s an overwhelming sense that they are not only making this music because they want to, but because they have to.
Points of interest
Discogs: It Will Be Like Now (Feb 2025), Liminal Fields (June 2023) & 2024’s EP Merge Now In Friendship
Includes former members of Wilderness (Jagjaguwar) Lord Dog Bird (Jagjaguwar) & cult emo band Don Martin Three (recently reissued on Numero Group)
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, The Fucking Champs)
Have played over 75 shows in the last year and a half, and were handpicked to support a reunited Black Eyes (Dischord) in San Francisco + recently toured supporting FACS
Tour dates:
SAT 01/17 San Francisco, CA @ Neck of the Woods w/ Black Eyes
Band members:
Colin McCann – vocals/guitar
Brian Gossman – bass
Eric Fiscus – drums
Follow Vulture Feather:
https://www.instagram.com/vulture_feather