In an exclusive interview with VMAN.com, the rising alt-pop musician discusses his latest release and uncovers a new version of his band that broke up four years ago
It’s not a trick question, but it is a subjective one. There are musicians who some would consider solo artists who have always recorded under “band” names, and in fact, either live or in the studio do include other members, even as they remain creatively, one person’s vision—think Bright Eyes or Bon Iver. There are acts that initially presented as full-on bands that have morphed into an alias for an individual’s many artistic pursuits: Tame Impala today is Kevin Parker, and vice versa.
Feinstein has long seemed something of an old soul, and still only 26, he’s been through more iterations and hiatuses and reconfigurations and musical excursions with Slow Hollows than many artists twice his age. But with, a new manager in former bandmate Aaron Jassenoff, plus a live band that includes Nick Noneman and early bandmate Nich Santana returning on drums, Feinstein and Slow Hollows version 3.0 are in a good place. And remember—it’s a band. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
VMAN: And your last show with the old band, at the Echo in L.A., March of 2020, was literally right before Covid. AF: Yeah that—now that you say that, that was the first song I think that I started writing. That came right, probably in the week after we played our last show, I was just kind of making little demos, and it came out of that.AF: There really wasn’t, which is why it made it all the more difficult, because that’s a very necessary thing, in making music. Even if somebody isn’t really saying anything but just having someone else in the room.
VMAN: This is a big and kind of philosophical question. I am thinking of leading this article with the question, “When is a banda band?” Or put another way, “What makes a band, a band?” There have been “bands” over the years that are essentially, creatively, one person—Conor Oberst used to insist Bright Eyes was a band, even if the world saw it as him. The first time I interviewed Tame Impala they very much presented as a band. We now know it’s essentially Kevin Parker’s alias.
VMAN: I love “Idle Hands” cause it just bursts forth with this big opening riff and jolts the record half way through. And I saw it’s actually a song you’ve had around since Romantic ?, and I felt like it was a really hard process, to record that one. But I kind of always remembered that song, and kind of liked the spirit of it. So when I was doing thesesongs, a lot of them were pretty slow, and I had just always pictured that song as being faster, as kind of an upper.
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