New Music: Feathership

The music that comes out of Montreal rarely disappoints, including: Arcade Fire, the Dears, Sam Roberts, the Stills or Wolf Parade.  With the debut of the EP, new band Feathership joins this impressive group.  Whilst this quintet is decisively closer to alternative-folk than the aforementioned indie-rock bands, Feathership’s music blends in enough colour to its fundamentally folksy sound to soon move from off the radar to the charts.

The band which started as a casual project between members of already well established Montreal-based groups has since taken a sharp turn as the release of their first EP and numerous tour dates has raised their profile significantly. Feathership music is reflective of the diverse backgrounds of its members; artists from Jay Pea, L’Indice, Plaza Musique and Mille Monarques. Much like the name of the band suggests, the six songs presented on the self-titled debut EP reveal sounds which are as light and moving as a feather, while the story behind the formation of this group might explain the suffix (-ship) used (see dictionary!). Click here to listen.

- Benjamin Leclair