New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Critically acclaimed Nashville country rockers The
Wild Feathers have shared their latest track, "Don't Know," available now via New West Records. A rabble-rousing dose of surf-punk delivered with layered gang vocals and a rolling bass line, the song comes from the band's first album in almost three years. Produced by 3x GRAMMY® Award-winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile,
Tanya Tucker, Turnpike Troubadours), Sirens, arrives everywhere on Friday, October 4. Pre-orders are available now.
"'Don't Know' started out as just an up-tempo rock and roll bass riff," says The
Wild Feathers co-founding bassist/singer Joel King. "Then adding a surf guitar and drums playing the toms, the lyrics had to be something primal and emotional. Leaving an old way of life behind but not sure you really want to. I'm sure it's been said before and will be said again but if it's how you feel, then you can't help but write it and scream it. 'I don't know if I can let it go.' It's not a song you really set out to write but a song that just happens."
Sirens was announced this spring alongside the album's first single, "Sanctuary." In addition, The
Wild Feathers recently performed the organ-fueled track for Toyota and SiriusXM's "Sounds of the Road" series, filmed live at The Cabin in downtown Park City, UT.
Long regarded as an electrifying live outfit, The
Wild Feathers will celebrate Sirens with a showcase at Nashville, TN's upcoming AMERICANAFEST (September 17-21). Additional dates will be announced soon.
Sirens sees The
Wild Feathers returning with the album they've been building towards since their foundation over a decade ago, a spirited collection of road-worn, sharply woven tales chronicling a life worth living, love worth holding, and the hard-earned lessons found along the ride. The follow-up to 2021's Alvarado - the band's much lauded debut for New West Records - marks the band's most sprawling, richly descriptive album thus far, channeling heartland rock excellence, old-school guitar riffs, rootsy jams, and heartfelt stories tailor-made for open-road therapy with windows down and speakers blaring.
The Wild Feathers' goal for their fifth studio album was to push beyond simply recreating a handful of demos and instead create something altogether new, with a fresh perspective heretofore untapped over the course of their previous releases. With that in mind, band members Ricky Young, Joel King, Taylor Burns, Ben Dumas, and
Brett Moore traveled some 2,000 miles from their homebase in Nashville to work with longtime friend and first-time collaborator Shooter Jennings at his Dave's Room studios in North Hollywood, CA. The
Wild Feathers entered the studio with a largely blank slate, bringing almost 30 rough draft song ideas and then developing them into a head-turning collection that showcases their distinctive ability to blend country storytelling with rock 'n' roll showmanship, from "
Don't Know" to "Pretending," a stop-you-in-your-tracks piano ballad that's bound to send lighters into the sky when the band takes to the road later this year. A true statement piece, Sirens is The
Wild Feathers at their very best, a time-tested, harmonized culmination formed by a veteran band Jennings praises as "a collective of truly deep soulful musicians and writers who have come together and stayed together over the years."
Founded in 2010 by Young, King, and Burns, The
Wild Feathers have eluded easy classification over the course of four studio albums, a rarities release, and acclaimed live album recorded at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium, fusing Americana, country, folk, heartland rock, blues, Southern flare and occasional punk attitude into something altogether their own. Sirens marks like the next step forward from such career-making songs as 2013's Triple A radio hit, "The Ceiling," and 2021's rip-roaring "Ain't Looking," showcasing strengths built from traveling on a virtually non-stop live schedule that saw sold-out headline tours, sought-after slots on festival stages including Bonnaroo
Music & Arts Festival, Austin City Limits Festival, and Americana Fest, and dates alongside such legends as Willie
Nelson and Bob Dylan. Outside of touring, writing, and recording together, The
Wild Feathers have also proven among Nashville's most sought-after players and songwriters. King's resume includes cutting bass on
Miranda Lambert's 2019 RIAA Gold-certified Wildcard and Lainey Wilson's 2022 breakout effort, Bell Bottom Country, both of which received GRAMMY® Awards for "Best Country Album." As songwriters, Young,
Burns and King have worked with alt-country icons The Jayhawks and collaborated on the hit ABC series Nashville, among other projects.
"I love being part of a band that is always growing and evolving," says Ricky Young. "We want to keep challenging ourselves to make new music while always continuing to grow and be challenged. For us, this is the best version of what we've always done. We're not the band we were 10 years ago. We're much better writers now. Much better performers. We're much better people. We've grown a lot."
"We just wanted to write a s load of songs, find a great producer and let go of the reins a little bit," says Joel King. "We were like, let's just do it like a band."
Tracklist:
Stereo
Pretending
Sanctuary
L.A. Makes Me Sad
Slow Down
Comedown
Don't Know
Rendezvous
Sleep For Days
Giving Up
