Taste Test: Foxfeather confront ‘The Rules’ forced upon women
The Americana band explore the patriarchy and constructs forced on women.
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The patriarchy would have you believe women are second-class citizens. Women, by and large, still face a terribly grim reality, an upward battle not unlike Sisyphus pushing a boulder up that big ole hill. Colorado’s Americana band Foxfeather – of Carly Ricks Smith (vocals), Laura Stratton (guitar, vocals, keys), Oliver Jacobson (fiddle), Mark Dabrowski (bass), Blake Smith (guitar), and Jake Edelstein (drums) – tear through society’s paper-thin constructs forced upon women. With “The Rules,” beginning as an earnest folk confessional, the group permits their anger to burst through the production – and the crescendo is altogether cathartic and sweeping. “Bang, bang, bang goes the hammer / And down she goes,” Smith howls as a wolf to the blood moon. The visual, directed by Kreaton Films, is appropriately set in the wilderness, and the wheat fields allow for a reaffirmation of independence and freedom.
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