I don't mean to be pedantic, but did you know there ARE horse feathers? The frilly hairs around the hoofs and fetlocks of draft horses, like Clydesdales, Percherons, and other breeds such as Freisans are called "feathers."

Understandable that this would be an acquired taste but, once acquired, I've found much of their music to be captivating.  Previous poster cited "Curs in the Weeds" and "Working Poor" as being off of this debut release, but those are actually off their second album "House with No Home".   Both have great moments, but for me the first one "Words are Dead" (containing this track) is better.  It's one of those albums that I fixated on — playing little else — for a period of weeks.  Strange how music can mesmerize some — touching some unconscious thread in our brains that we didn't even know was there — while repulsing others.  I guess that's why we listen, no?

Play on, Goldsmith's.  Play on!

It sounds very distorted.

 Carl wrote: 
Horse Feathers! .......

Does the singer sound like the bassist for Gomez?

Edit: Just glanced through the posts and I see that I'm not alone in thinking this...

  play that fiddle !

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Great Lake Swimmers are SO much better than this.

The violin in this is grating on my nerves too. Never really cared much for this song...or this band in general...

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
Hmm. At first I thought it was Gomez. Nice tune.

 deadmessengers wrote: 
I agree. I know I'm in the minority here, though. So, I guess I'll just take a walk.

reminds me of Donovan

Nice vocals...

 peter_james_bond wrote: 
That's who I thought it was, too.

Reminded me of Great Lake Swimmers.

Love this! Wish RP would play it a bit more often.

For some reason I thought this song was by Gomez, Maybe that's why I can't find it

yeah for portland music!

a bit overplayed - good case of less is more

really nice song

 avidlistener wrote: 
After hearing this track, I bought the album, and whilst I do like it, I find listening to all the tracks "on the trot" becomes tiresome. I prefer to shuffle the tracks in with other stuff. Then again, I have a few other albums like that.

This song is amazing! Horse Feathers is such a unique and great band. I own the entire album and there are a bunch of other great songs including curs in the weeds, working poor, blood on the snow etc.

 deadmessengers wrote: 

I could kind of see that, but for me, it's the best part of the song.

I don't know why, but the violin in this song just grates on me.

beautiful and simple!

My initial thoughts with the intro was that this came from the Penguin Cafe

Great song. 

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