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The Features
“The Drawing Board”
Form & Function Sessions (2006)Here’s another of the handful of tracks (specifically, 3) that have surfaced from the band’s initial demo session for their followup to Exhibit A. This version of “The Drawing Board” features keyboard horns as opposed to the real horns that appear on the version that would appear on Some Kind of Salvation a few years later. “The Drawing Board” debuted in December 2005 and this recorded version appeared on the band’s MySpace page (yep!) not too long afterwards.
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Today’s request comes from Hollis.
The Features
“Late Night”
Late Night/End of the World, 7” single release w/ Slack (2006)
This is one of the more peculiar Features songs, not because of anything that out of the ordinary regarding the actual song but more because of its origin. My new and extensive database tells me that this song was only played once as “Late Night” on November 12th, 2005. It was then recorded as part of the aborted sessions for the band’s follow-up album for Universal Records. These sessions were produced by Matt Mahaffey in 2006 and also yielded the first recorded versions of “The Drawing Board” and “Take You On,” both of which were debuted on the band’s MySpace page. After the shake up happened and those sessions were halted, the band released this on a split 7” with fellow Nashville band Slack. If the quality of this recording is questionable it’s because it was transferred from my record player to my computer-box through a magic United-Saftey-Bond (USB) port.
The song itself is a fun one, with Matt singing in an uncharacteristic falsetto and Parrish playing a downright freaky funky keyboard part. The “standing in the middle, standing in the middle” part is delightfully fun to sing and I thoroughly enjoy the darkly simple guitar riff that seems to chase itself in furious circles at the top and during the chorus of the song.
THIS VERSION APPEARS ON:
Late Night/End of the World, 7” single release w/ Slack (2006)
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The Features are a Nashville, Tennessee based rock band. The purpose of this Tumblr is to provide a comprehensive and interactive database
of the Features' music. The blog is named after the Features song "The Damage Is Done."
If you would like any of the unreleased songs featured on this site, you can download them yourself or email me for copies. I am not able to send every Features song I own in one go, mainly because I don't have a way of hosting all the files, and I also gotta keep some song tricks up my blog sleeve. Specific song requests are the easiest ones to fulfill. It might take a little while to respond but I will try my best. I will not send songs that have been officially released in any capacity, so buy their albums.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BRETT WHITE is a New York City-based comedian who has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and written for Wizard Magazine. He is currently a writer on the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch team Thunder Gulch. He performs improv comedy with the groups Iron Ruckus and Daddy. He is also the author of the web comic Tales To Diminish and contributes to the nerd-humor site Topless Robot.
His obsession with the Features began when he first saw them on October 18th, 2001. His college years were spent posting on the Features message board under the name DigsySlattery. He has seen the Features over 50 times in concert and never makes a mix CD without including at least one Features song.
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