A blog called listen, dammit enjoyed the Hungry Villagers track “Tree Full of Ghosts.”
There’s a bit of a gospel feel in the Hungry Villagers’ folk-rock sound, too, in Abraham’s resonant vocals and the way his brothers blend their voices in harmony. The band’s single, “Tree Full of Ghosts,” has a propulsive backbeat framing strummed acoustic guitar, atmospheric electric guitar and chugging bass. Powerful stuff.
We perform “Followed It Down” at our SXSW gig at HiLo in Austin on March 17.
Hungry Villagers perform Followed It Down from Hungry Villagers on Vimeo.
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Listen to Little Fingers by Hungry Villagers
Craig Hlavaty of the Houston Press noticed last week that the Villagers are getting some attention from Seattle indie station KEXP.
The fruits of Hungry Villagers’ labors have seemingly paid off. Today, while perusing the concert industry website livedaily.com, we saw the Houston indie-pop group has today’s free download of the day, new track “Tree Full Of Ghosts.” Further investigation led us to the music blog for influential Seattle indie station KEXP 90.3 FM championing the band, describing them as a “burst of hope and fresh spring air.”
Thanks for keeping folks updated, Craig!
By Dave Houck
Driving towards Austin from Houston for the first time was a beautiful experience in itself; nothing else could have put me in the right mindset than to gaze out over the fields and Savannah-like terrain. With the sun pouring down upon us, and the cool, spring air rushing in the car, I found myself thinking that I was in South Africa, more than once. And almost found myself looking out the window, trying to spot an animal.
We arrived in Austin around 2-3 pm and the weather could not have been better. Driving towards our destination, which was the venue we were to play at later that evening, had an almost medicating touch to it. I came upon the realization that all of these tons and tons of people (including all the beautiful women) that we kept passing by, are here because of one thing, music! Now, I have raised my respect level for music itself. It is powerful!!! It’s art that brings thousands of people together, changes moods in an instant, and can make someone’s not-so-great SXSW into the best day or week of their life (so far).
I saw a few talented musicians, but there was one that I must say truly gave me an inspiration that was long needed. Ferrick called me at 2:30 and said that M.Ward was playing in an hour or so. So Abe and I rushed down to see if we could catch the show. We got there just in time, Matt walked out on stage and Abe said to me, “look, he’s not one of these kids.” He didn’t have to look like someone special. He came on stage, very casually, and played the best solo show I have seen, to this day.
Thank you to all the folks that came out to see our show, and to all who helped make this thing a success.
