Effervescent, indietronic-artrock meets wonky pop created by enigmatic partners in life and art Featherwest. A poetic, off-centre take on the human condition straddling live band and electronic with vintage synths and soaring male - female vocal interplay

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Band members/recording contributors:-
Anthony Denton - Vox, Synths, Samples, Guitar, lead songwriter
Iwona Denton - Vox, Synths, Guitar
Melanie Dutton - (Drums 2014-17 including album recording)

Currently on drums:-
Kevin Dunne (Drums 2017- present day)

Producer and Recording Engineer:- Paul Savage.
Recorded and mixed at:- Chem 19 Studios, Blantyre.
Mastered by Pete Maher at Top Floor Mastering, London

“Ambitious, Eccentric, bounding sound” - BBC Music

“Featherwest’s soothing vocal leads to all kinds of harmonious tomfoolery when the drums kick in and gives way to a flurry of action and the odd interruption of vocal percussion.” - Fresh Waves

“With their pristine production and more importantly uplifting tracks, Glasgow’s Featherwest are yet another collective to stand out amongst a saturation of electronic pop, lad indie rock and uninventive emo. People In The Station’ has identified Featherwest as a charismatic and luminous group!
Live these pop mavericks are as intriguing as they come.” - Podcart

“Loving anything weird, alternative to mainstream, we make our very own slightly odd and off centre sounds combined with lyrics that romanticise on less comfortable areas of the human condition. All in all we kinda wish we lived in Twin Peaks.” Featherwest

Featherwest’s debut album 'Home At Sea' is a collection of songs built around the soundscapes of vintage synths, samples, harmonic male - female vocals that straddle from electronic smoothly into band music (live drums, guitars) all with a distinct, true live air rapping round it.
With this album project the duo had a specific place and person they wished to work with in their sights and went for it. Paul Savage (Chem 19 Studios) the producer of three epic Mogwai albums, Arab Strap, Emma Pollock, Deacon Blue, King Creosote, Franz Ferdinand played important and creative role in a process of recording and producing the album.

With the romantic sounding name Featherwest is in fact a fictitious game played in a sketch from popular 90s mental comedy show Reeves and Mortimer. This mirrors the layered and eccentric approach through their songwriting and performance.
Hailing from Glasgow yet with a mix of backgrounds Featherwest source influence from working in music, art and theatre to form an inviting sound that has usually one element of off-centre-ness to catch the type of audience member that wishes to wonder and look further into influences such a Tadeusz Kantor, Harold Pinter, David Lynch, Bladerunner, The Life Aquatic, Little Dragon, Cocteau Twins and Vampire Weekend's 3rd Album.

'Home at Sea' on the lyrical level is a deeply poetic documentation of the duo’s experience of living in Scotland. A collection of their very personal experiences from becoming parents (A baby Not Yet), long term relationship ups and downs (Anything I Say ,Viking Ship), through commentary or observations of the steady devaluation of art and its' loss of integrity (Darcey), to recording political events such as the Scottish Referendum (Honey Bee) or simply a nostalgic take on the demolition of Glasgow famous Red Road flats (Cry for the Days).

Notably the songs People In The Station, A Baby not Yet and Honey Bee have been the subject of much praise and airplay from BBC through to KEXP.