FEATURES - X-Features LP outsider Blastin' underground hard-rock from Canada

Blastin' underground hard-rock from Canada

This album has a taste of everything that they were known for: drunken jams ("Hootenanny")

they were fucking awesome at it

Producer and Ace of Hearts label boss Rick Harte (a major figure on the Boston Rock scene from the late ‘70s and beyond) nails the band’s sound (the raunchy twang of Felice’s guitar sounds is instantly recognisable) and adds some neat touches

Compared to the ridiculously over-the-top Chaka Khan remake

FEATURES - X-Features LP outsider Blastin' underground hard-rock from Canada* MINOR SLEEVE CREASE AT ONE CORNER * Includes d l code. Highly recommended. The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, led by Jed Town (guitar) and James Pinker (drums). Both were members of The Superettes with Paul Kean (later The Bats), and when Kean left to join Toy Love they pulled in Karel Van Bergen