Over The Last 20 Years, Portland, Oregon's Federale Has Carved Out A Unique Niche Within The Indie Music Landscape, Blending Their Signature Spaghetti-Western Instrumental Sound With Increasing Doses Of Moody Vocal Arrangements In The Spirit Of Lee Hazlewood Or Later-Period Leonard Cohen - Still, Through It All Songwriter (And Lead Singer, When There Is One) Collin Hegna Has Maintained A Strictly Retro Vibe, And Federale's Records Have Always Sounded Period-Correct For An Alternate Universe 1971 Where Rock And Roll Never Caught On

Reverb & Seduction, Federale's Sixth Studio Album, Marks The Band's 20th Anniversary, And Fnds Them Beginning To Color Outside Those Ennio Morricone Lines. Perhaps Hegna--Who Also Spent The Last 20 Years As A Dues-Paying Member Of The Brian Jonestown Massacre--Has Fnally Decided To Give His Psych-Rock Alter Ego A Seat At The Federale Table.

"Before, I'd Have An Idea And Think, 'Well, That Can't Be A Federale Song', Because It Had Distorted Guitars Or Whatever," Says Hegna. "But Then I Thought, 'Well, Why Not?'" This Openness To A Broader Palette Of Infuences Allows Reverb And Seduction To Veer Into Psychedelic And Even Gothic Territory-- Think Love And Rockets Or Sisters Of Mercy--That The 2010s Federale Might Have Considered Off Limits. The Album's Frst Single "Heaven Forgive Me," For Example, Draws On Goblin (The Italian Prog-Rockers Who Scored Suspiria) And Perhaps Even A Little Depeche Mode, While "Advice From A Stranger" Borrows The Fuzz And Feedback Of DIG!-Era BJM And The Electric Prunes.