VULTURE FEATHER – It Will Be Like Now – LP – ‘Rose’ Coloured Vinyl [FEB 14]

LP – Limited Edition ‘Rose’ Coloured Vinyl. Sophomore album & follow up to their debut and an EP.

Colin McCann, Brian Gossman, and Eric Fiscus periodically return to the grid from the remote mountains of Northern California to document their evo/involution as Vulture Feather. Touring the states throughout much of 2024, they brought the sharpened machine back to Tim Green‘s Louder Studios to capture their second album, It Will Be Like Now.

In literary terms, the record is a work of man versus nature, except man and nature are both secret identities of a third, unnamed thing. Tears and the ocean and death are the main characters, and the initiated may get the sense that these too, belong to the absolute. It all ultimately resolves as a terrifying and beautiful love story. Sonically speaking, It Will Be Like Now reports from a place where PiL and Jah Wobble never parted ways, where Johnny Marr righted the ship, where songs only need one part: the good part.

The heads will know McCann and Gossman from their time in the prehistoric Don Martin Three (recently re-issued catalog by Numero Group) and later, Wilderness (Jagjaguwar). While prior efforts are beside the point, this is undeniably the sound of people who have been making music together for 25+ years. Glistening as much as howling, the guitar and vocals function as duet, delivering The Only Story Ever Told over a conciseand thunderous rhythm section. It’s the sound emulating from everywhere, all the time, through thick carpets of clouds, reverberating off canyon walls, through troubled waters, and finally to your devices, your ears, your heart, if you choose to hear it.

RIYL: FACS, Wilderness, Cola, American Football, Shudder to Think, Title Fight, This Heat, Protomartyr, Gold Class, Fontaines DC, Unwound, Fugazi, Jawbox.

Tracklist:

01. Blood Knot
02. Into Space
03. Flesh and Electronics
04. Calling From Afar
05. Sweetest Friend
06. Like Now
07. Only/Holy Names
08. Let It Through