The Features
By user • Dec 1st, 2006 • Category: Band Bios
The Features would make horrible real estate agents. The business keys in on “location, location, location,” and this Tennessee quartet lacks all three. Tennessee’s reputation is built on Elvis, Sun Studios, Isaac Hayes’ ‘70s neo-funk and Dixieland’s deep roots. Recently it’s been home to the dirty South’s hip hop army and a handful of jangle pop outfits. So playing keys-driven, brooding guitar rock sounds as odd as…well…a group of guys in Tennessee playing keys-driven, brooding guitar rock. Yet despite their geographical shortcomings, The Features have even worse timing. The band’s disco-hinting self-titled EP came a few years before “angular dance punk” was used to describe every backbeat, and their debut LP broke just long enough after the Kaiser Chiefs and the Dead 60s to be dubbed a knockoff. But it’s a blessing that the band seems best — or only — suited to play brilliantly sassy rock ’n’ roll. Guys in skinny jeans aren’t cut out to sell houses anyway.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, December 2006
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