Horse Feathers - House With No Home (Music CD)

Portland Americana group Horse Feathers selected the perfect photo to cover their album A HOUSE WITH NO HOME. The snow-topped shack in a wooded clearing could be the building in which these austere songs were written and rehearsed. The hushed mood and gentle performances come off like Elliott Smith raised in the country, and bluegrass-tinted, fiddle-laden songs like "Working Poor" and "Helen" exude the same kind of loneliness as the late indie-folk martyr. The recording is appropriately naked, giving the songs the natural, lived-in feel of something played by actual people in a room instead of in a high-tech studio.