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Horse Feathers: House with No Home

Portland indie-folk trio stares into the dark Horse Feathers constructs music out of fragile whispers and half-remembered dreams, eagerly filling in the gaps between Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine on the American indie-folk continuum. Led by Justin Ringle, a soft-voiced poet from the rural expanse of Idaho, the trio refines the approach of its 2006 debut, creating songs with more open space, fewer loose ends, and all the metaphorical tangles left intact. The arrangements feel as chilly and evasive as the ghostly barns hovering over a snowy landscape on the album’s cover. Ringle’s conflicted racists and bitter families are...  read more