“featherbed” feature in indoor cycling magazine – it’s the jam to “get your cardio rate up” to!

The Shrouded Strangers have no pedigree. They are part east cost (DC, PA, VA), part west coast (CA) and their shelf of influences blends that nomadic vibe: equal parts psychedelic, freak-folk, garage-trip, with plenty of sing-a-longs. Some people say Gun Club, some say Link Wray…more here

Evidence seems to suggest FensePost heard the entire album!

“Even “(Don’t Look At The) Pink Lightning” with its light psychedelic folk-pop intro delves off into the experimental realm. This builds into an anthemic sing-a-long with swirling guitar feedback before dropping into a near a capella conclusion. It’s downright brilliant!

The same holds true for the insanely poppy “How The Dead Butter Their Bread”. And what makes it even better: the entire album is like this. It jumps around with almost manic-like fervor, yet maintains a shocking consistency….”  Read more via FensePost.

my old kentucky blog uses the “bird” photo!

“Featherbeeed… Maker’s Maaaark…” this isn’t the first time crazee lyrics have taken up residence in my head. You can blame it on the thick guitar fuzz, made-in-heaven riff, and, and yummy psychedelic effects those addled lads called Shrouded Strangers have stirred together for this track.

“Featherbed” is from their new full-length, Lost Forever, which is out now, & enjoys its “national release” next month. Whatever/whenever you call the release, I hope it means a tour with Thee Oh Sees. See what happens when you get a psych-beat addicted headbanger started?”  Read it here.

dc’s “brightest young things” reviews the black cat show

Read the whole thing here

The Shrouded Strangers have no pedigree. They are part east cost (DC, PA, VA), part west coast (CA) and their shelf of influences blends that nomadic vibe: equal parts psychedelic, freak-folk, garage-trip, with plenty of sing-a-longs.  Some people say Gun Club, some say Link Wray.  The dropped a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Run Run Run” toward the end of their set and I believe they played  Sonic Youth’s “Washing Machine” earlier on.

Their own catalogue is just as solid, from the over-tanned hum of “Featherbed” to the last-call shanty “Black Tie/White Atlas Shrugged”, to the endlessly strung out “(Don’t Look at The) Pink Lightning”.

wednesday in santa cruz @ the crepe place

now we know why people think we’re from santa cruz, and it’s because footage from “featherbed” was shot there.  makes sense.

Transplants to the East Bay from Harrisonburg, Virginia by way of Washington, D.C., the Shrouded Strangers are a fuzzed-out, psych-pop outfit peddling hillbilly hallucinations, sea shanties about mutinies gone wrong and catchy ditties steeped in indie furor. The band’s “summer-beach-fuzz-rock anthem” “Featherbed” and the accompanying video, which features tons of surf footage and our own Beach Boardwalk, were submitted, and rejected, by three of the surf industry’s big name businesses. I say give ‘em points for trying.

blush-worthy stuff from ventura county, ca

from Rock n’ Roll Call, just south in Ventura, home of our much-loved C Street break:

“Haunting fuzzed out guitars – part Duane Eddy, Link Wray and some surf music meets the Gun Club with the drummer working overtime – you’ll love these guys the first time. A more modern comparison is maybe, Japanese Motors from a few years ago, who themselves were channeling some ’60s garage bands.

This tight trio is from Virginia but these days based in Santa Cruz. (Ed: I wish!) hey have a video up right now – “Featherbed.” Anyway, this is my new favorite band and will definitely end up on the year end list.”

“lost forever” jaunt kick-off friday in harrisburg (aka “aluminum city usa”)

The Strangers’ “Lost Forever” east coast jaunt commences Fri. in harrisburg, pa!
WITH SPECIAL GUEST:
DJ TRASHCAN spinning 45′s ranging from Garage to Soul, British Invasion to Oddball Dancehall!

doors at 7:30, music at 8PM / ALL AGES

“Lost Forever” finds the POP! Stereo Review a bit ambivalent and bewildered….

…which is really great if you ask us!!

“The Shrouded Strangers are a rather bizarre little group of psychedelic loving folk, who may or may not be hillbillies. Recorded in the woods of Guerneville, California Lost Forever is a lo-fi drunken stupor of backwoods tales through undeveloped land….

“This is a fuzzed out, tripped out; hallucinogenic record that feels like it was pieced together utilizing duct tape, broken instruments, magic mushrooms, and loads of booze. It doesn’t make much sense, it sounds like it could fall apart at any minute and listening to it might or might not generate some sort of contact high. With Lost Forever being so weird and so out there the songs seem to be, um, lost forever….”

Read the whole thing here.

Quite jolly kind words from the UK’s “Popscene”

Here it is:

Sometimes (most of the time) I listen to a song, shrug my shoulders and forget about it forever. Other times (not very often) a song grabs me, diverts my attention from what I’m supposed to be doing and screams “LISTEN TO ME”.

Now, I know that having just shared with you that “I hear voices” you may assume that I am for want of a better word, nuts. I promise you that I am not… although I did have a strange urge to kill people when I played Sgt. Pepper backwards earlier*. But the point I’m trying to make is that The Shrouded Strangers new single Featherbed is a song that demands to be listened to… maybe I should have started this article “The Shrouded Strangers new single, Featherbed, is a song that demands to be listened to”… but you might not have known what I meant.

If you still don’t know what the bloody hell I am talking about then take a listen for yourself.

austin town hall gets it right. its byrds and mamas and papas out here, like, all the time.

“Feel as if I’ve been too mellow this week, so I’m glad I’ve got the opportunity to share this little jam with you.  The group’s called The Shrouded Strangers, a Cali by way of Virginia act, and they’re about to release Lost Forever.  You can grab the album from the group right now, and I suggest you do so, as it will definitely make your week.

Yeah, the track has a thick coat of atmospheric wash atop it, but beneath it all is brewing this incredible sunny pop element, perhaps influenced by the band’s move to the West Coast.  This is definitely the sort of track where you can just drop out and play it over and over again.  You dig?” -Austin Town Hall