The Features are a
psychedelic rock outfit that plays fresh, off-kilter
pop that sounds like a head-on collision between
Ray Davies and
Elvis Costello with the Elephan 6 Collective picking up the pieces and putting them back together in the American South. Formed in the small, hidden town of Sparta, Tennessee, guitarist and vocalist
Matt Pelham, bassist
Roger Dabbs, keyboardist
Parrish Yaw, and drummer
Rollum Haas began playing their quirky and contagious
pop as
The Features around Pelham's colorful personal ruminations. Their self-titled debut EP, released in 1997, drew heavily on thick keyboards and an original, updated
new wave sound. The Beginning EP -- a classicist
pop record, at once as lush and sun-dappled as
the Shins, and as pointed and probing as
the Jam, followed with a U.K. release on Fierce Panda in 2003. The record was put out in the United States by Universal in March of 2004, with slightly altered tracking. Several other U.K. 7"s never saw a U.S. domestic release, but the The Beginning was finally unleashed stateside in March 2004. Exhibit A,
The Features debut full length, was relesed in September of 2004 by Universal. ~ Charles Spano, All Music Guide
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Some Kind of Salvation
Exhibit A