Anyone who enjoys rooting for the underdog will find a total hero of a rock band in Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s the Features. We first heard about them via the Kings of Leon (with whom they toured), and kinda fell madly in love with their dirty-southern-pop debut Exhibit A, especially after seeing the band’s debauched live show. In May, the Features were set to begin recording their second album when Universal unexpectedly dropped them. According to the band, the Features were asked to do a cover of the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” for a Chase Credit Card commercial. Universal wanted to include the track on the new album and release it as a single. The band refused and were subsequently booted off the label.
So that kind of sucked. But the Features have rebounded and are self-releasing this EP, Contrast. It brings more of the same frenetic country power-pop, laced with garagey keys, and the multi-octive, runaway-train vocals of frontman/guitarist Matthew Pelham. We liked them a lot as the obvious Next Big Thing, but even more as the scrappy longshot in a dramatic Art vs. Commerce battle with The Man.
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