Lee Feather and The Night Movers have been seeding a trail of musical crumbs for almost a year now, setting the stage for their forthcoming debut EP. We are not there yet, hold your horses. First, we get ‘Everybody Sings’, a piece that reiterates the highly nostalgic allure and playful eclecticism enjoyed by the British creatives. Out today, the track picks up where the seasonal tenderness of ‘Drugs For Christmas’ left off. It’s February now, and the vibe has indeed shifted, with ‘Everybody Sings’ engaging in kinetic new wave goodness and 90s-leaning pop melodism.
Curiously, the project makes it a point of never quite descending into the mainstream landscape, instead surviving on the fringes, in-between hints of retro euphoria and understated modern elegance. The result is quite quirky yet intoxicating. It’s fresh and unapologetic, and in fact, we’d argue that Lee Feather and The Night Movers do a wonderful job of being musical ‘historians’. That is, recycling old production tropes and formulas and offering them to an hypnotized, keen audience.
The songwriting behind ‘Everybody Sings’ is gently dystopian and weirdly dreamy, holding the listening experience into a series of metaphorical imagery and post-punk-flavoured fierceness. Hailing from Frome, UK, the British outfit appears to have clear ideas about the direction they have undertaken. We fully subscribe to their vision, one that’s light-heartedly nostalgic, yet incredibly relevant and intriguing. ‘Everybody Sings’ is out today via Stray Records.
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