On November 14th in Portland and on the 15th in Seattle, the Hackles will perform at record release shows for their upcoming album, A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should, and they’d love to see you there. The Portland show will be at Polaris Hall and the Seattle Show will be at the Ballard Homestead.
Luke Ydstie and Kati Claborn, aka the Hackles, are also members of the awesome band, Blind Pilot. They met in that band and now live in Astoria, Oregon (a very cool place, with plenty of rain) with their five-year-old daughter. (Like all five year olds, she’s a handful.) This new Hackles album represents their exploration into newer, better, and more transcendent sounds.
I got a chance to hear a preview of the record. It is beautiful. It makes me happy to be alive. As I listen, I imagine a healthy grass roots movement of quiet and reasonable people, between 2 and 20,000 of them in East Portland alone, who love this album, carry a memory of it in their hearts, and return to listen to it alone or in small groups, on winter nights when clarity is needed. Many of these folks are warmed by shelter dogs sleeping at their feet.
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