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DOTS NOT FEATHERS: COME BACK TO BED EP

“Can you guys do me a favor?”

“Sure.”

“Can you just play one wrong note when you perform? Just one?”

This was overheard after one of Dots Not Feather’s short, finely manicured sets at Picasso’s Coffee House on Main Street Saint Charles, MO. And it’s a telling observation: In the shambolic forest of beards and flannel that pervades non-traditional folk music, DNF is the young suitor who comes to the Harvest Festival in a dapper tailored suit, shorn locks, and straight-razored with a carnation pinned to its label. This is handsome music, and it’s not afraid to show it.

Matt Pond PA

Like the way the warm aroma of burning oak can spark memories reminiscent of  cold winter months, certain songs bookmark the beauty and mundane nature of our everyday lives. Be it your first cross country road trip with friends, or the certainty of heartache that inevitably finds its way into our existence, songs have a way [...]

Kranky Records On Tour 2011 @ Off Broadway Nov.5th

In a previous post detailing 2010’s left-of-center musical delicacies, I made reference to my friend Michael Campbell’s essential role in illuminating the possibilities of recorded music to me over long winter afternoons in Putnam County, New York. I finally understood the allure of improvisational sound construction, and acknowledged the masters who can harness the seemingly intangible and [...]