This Seattle five-piece prances along on a healthy dose of shimmering, experimental indie rock that sometimes exudes a maniacal, pounding zest on this debut full-length. Jim Cotton and Jeff Keenan's co-vocal duties contort into a dark, trippy tag team of twisted hoots and hollers that swing like a jerky pendulum between succulent, hushed intimacy and a bouncy, Issac Brock-ian bark. The band follows a more singular, savage path of gloom, madness and dreariness as the keys ring hard against a dulled tidal wave of drums, due in no small part to the second duality of the band: two drummers. It's this Gypsy-like behavior that has the Children swooning through eccentric melodramas while unfurling cleverly flippant lyrics like, "Billionaires who shit on millionaires/who whine about their view like anyone cares." Hailing from one of the main hubs of American indie rock—the home to that small revolution known as grunge—seems to have caused Feral Children to retort in a way that sets them apart. If Seattle was the initial splash of indie rock, Feral Children is one of the far outer-ring ripples that crashes unpredictably against the bank.

Tracklist For Second To The Last Frontier:

01. Spy/Glass House
02. Billionaires Vs. Millionaires
03. Jaundice Giraffe
04. Ex-Blindman
05. Me, Me, Just Me
06. Baby Joseph Stalin
07. Cannibal Prison
08. Lost In The Woods
09. Saint
10. Space Face
11. The Beast=Goldmine
12. Zyghost

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