Heavy Feather – Debris & Rubble
Release Date: April 5, 2019
The minute any of my friends hear Heavy Feather I can guarantee that they will say, “This is Don’s band!” What can I say? I need to move to Sweden because it seems that’s where the majority of my favorite bands are. Anyways, I definitely have a type but what I love about Heavy Feather is that they seem to have been able to successfully combine all the things I love about this kind of music and turn it into something truly special.
Take the blues attitude of Blues Pills, throw in the psych-rock sounds of Graveyard and add in the groove and melody of Sienna Root for good measure and you get a goulash of pure awesomeness. The opening track, “Where Will We Go,” while an awesome song, isn’t the best representation of this band. If you hear this song and you find yourself thinking that this is just another Blues Pills knock off, keep listening and you will discover that Heavy Feather is in a league of their own.
“Waited All My Life” is gritting lip biting groove fest full of sass via lead vocalist Lisa Lystam. “Dreams” reminds me of a cross between Black Sabbath and something you’d hear in the musical Hair. It has one of the sweetest melodies and a chorus that carries you down this mental river. This is definitely one of those songs best listened to in an altered frame of mind and with your eyes closed.
The album closes out with “Whispering Things” which is a melancholy southern rock ballad that makes one think of thick humid air, hanging out at Rose Hill Cemetery paying homage to the fallen Allman Brothers and watching the river roll by. Definitely, a calm and very appropriate way to close out the album leaving you wanting more.
I’ll be honest, I kept my expectations low for Heavy Feather. Were they going to be just another band riding the wave of psychedelic blues rock or were they going to be something else? What I discovered is that While Heavy Feather embodies those elements of music that I already love, the pleasant surprise of the heavy influence of southern rock is what set them away from the pack and made them a band to be eagle eyed. If Heavy Feather keeps this up, I could totally see them achieving great things.
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