Today's Pick

Australian band Boy & Bear has premiered their new video for "Feeding Line," the lead single off of their full-length debut album "Moonfire." The band has a nice polished sound with a folk/indie rock vibe and this shining favorite track contains a beautiful set of guitar rhythms and harmonious vocals, that help keep a very true essence of folk-ness in this rising indie rock band. And with its recording leading back to Nashville, Tennessee, this is no wonder.
A natural progression from their stripped back, folksy roots, "Feeding Line" oozes with driving beats and soaring melodies. Facing the prospect of redundancy as the music industry shuffles towards a shuffling-induced torpor, the Sydney five-piece's confident take on the folk rock movement, and have responded with a hearteningly traditional move. Rather than prostitute their ethos to the fickle popular imagination, frontman Dave Hosking and his mates have gone and penned yet another solid track in "Feeding Line."
"Feeding Line" sees the boys take a new lyrical tack, exploring first-person narration to surprisingly successful effect. Storytelling is almost inevitably easier when you don't have to engage in the sorts of strenuous introspection that personal narratives demand. As a single it doesn't necessarily have the same instantly identifiable choral riff that made their earlier work alternative cool and mainstream embraced at once but it is in sacrificing perhaps the more populist elements of folk, the easy drum beat, the compulsive whistling, the banjo that "Feeding Line" really represents a step forward for the band.
With their own take on indie-folk and impeccable harmonies. Their film clips are always original, and manage to stir nostalgic feelings in the viewer. The new video for "Feeding Line" doesn't let this reputation down. Set across the countryside in corn fields, forests and snow-covered plains, the video follows an apparent love story, is a scenic escape to the past with all the folks taking place in what feels like Colonial times. The characters are decked out in period costumes which just add to the charming nature of the clip.