FEDERALE presents 'The Worst Thing I Ever Did Was Ever Loving You' feat. JENNY DON'T, a jewel from their new 'Reverb & Seduction' album

FEDERALE presents 'The Worst Thing I Ever Did Was Ever Loving You' feat. JENNY DON'T, a jewel from their new 'Reverb & Seduction' album
New Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra-tinged single crowns their 20-year musical saga 

FOR FANS OF: Lee Hazlewood, Ennio Morricone, The Mission, Echo & The Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, The Black Angels, Roselit Bone, Spindrift, Depeche Mode
RADIO FOCUS TRACKS: Heaven Forgive Me, No Strangers, The Worst Thing I Ever Did Was Ever Loving You, Dark Waters, I'll Never Forget & radio edits for The Gallows Gate & Advice From a Stranger
All tracks are FCC clean, except 'Advice From A Stranger' & 'Gallows Gate' (clean radio edits have been provided in press kit)

FOR SHARING
'The Worst Thing I Ever Did Was Ever Loving You' feat. Jenny Don't  https://youtu.be/pryjJsH_dvI 
'Reverb & Seduction' album order  https://pocp.co/reverb-and-seduction
Bandcamp  https://federalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/reverb-seduction
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/6gzstULLTR1OEwhnWeWojh
Apple Music  https://music.apple.com/us/artist/federale/337269783
'Advice From a Stranger' video https://youtu.be/szTf8z5-y9c
'No Strangers' video  https://youtu.be/RsiftDMjDNg
'Heaven Forgive Me' video  https://youtu.be/uj7VLYutKgw
Tour tickets https://www.songkick.com/artists/584775-federale

“Equal parts Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazelwood, and Nick Cave with a touch of Chris Isaak’s less romantic side… few if any artists are brave and/or creative enough to channel this ghostly, often ominous vibe into moving, sensual and stirring music” ~ American Songwriter

"Their most immersive and varied album to date, Collin Hegna and his merry band of music-makers take us on a fantastic journey... and on ‘Heaven Forgive Me’, Hegna channels the post-punk vibes of such bands as The Church, Pink Turns Blue and The Mission to our delight" ~ The Spill Magazine

Portland's iconic outfit Federale presents their latest single 'The Worst Thing I Ever Did Was Ever Loving You' feat. Jenny Don't, a song cast in the mold of the storied duets of Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra. This superb duet is from Federale's sixth studio album 'Reverb & Seduction', newly released via Jealous Butcher Records. Led by Collin Hegna, a long-standing member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, this record marks the band's 20th anniversary. 

Set to a Beatles-inspired backbeat and adorned with period-correct strings and pedal steel, this song is an homage to the sounds of 1968. A time when psychedelia, country, rock, soul and crooners all started blending together to create a melange of genres that could only exist in that magical point in time. Except it exists now too thanks to Federale & Ameripolitan Music Awards-winning chanteuse Jenny Don’t of Jenny Don't and The Spurs.

Often in the Hazlewood-penned songs of the late 60s, Lee would write about a bedraggled yet loveable rogue that somewhat resembles himself but notably this character is always down on his luck. And the object of his affections simultaneously mocks him but can’t quite give him up. In Federale’s “The Worst Thing..” we find Jenny Don’t taking up the mantle of the femme fatale that’s just had enough of her loser worser half. Meanwhile, Federale’s Collin Hegna goes down a laundry list of all the bad things he’s done (and there’s plenty), but somehow the worst thing he ever did was falling in love. Not even his worst behaviour (involving booze, drugs, gambling, and winding up with a bloody nose from something or other) can rival his moral ineptitude in causing a good woman to fall for a bad man. But Jenny has had enough of his bragging and excuses. She knows the score and isn't afraid to let this loser know who’s won and who’s lost. And it ain’t her.

For over a dozen years, Jenny Don't and The Spurs has been known for their high-energy Country Western style and captivating stage presence, having garnered a global following with their infectious enthusiasm. Collin Hegna also happened to record and mix the band's latest record 'Broken Hearted Blue' (out now on Fluff & Gravy Records) at Revolver Studios in Portland.

Filmed entirely on 16mm Kodak 200t film, the video for 'The Worst Thing' was inspired by the amazing one-shot music videos of the late 60s that were seen on shows such as the Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show. Often shot live with little to no editing, they often featured minimal sets and creative theatrical lighting. With the performers often lip-syncing to their pre-recorded material, it was up to the camera and the performer to bring the performance to life.

This video involved three takes straight through so that the singer's positions could be shifted for the various points of view being portrayed in the lyrics of the song. The only editing entailed cutting between takes to create this effect. Cinematographer Joe Bowden used the Eclair NPR 16mm camera, created in 1963 in France - revolutionary for its portability and noiseless design, and  a favorite of documentary and independent filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s. Shot in Portland, Oregon at Desert Island Studios, this is an authentic representation of how music videos were created in the era the song is set in.

'Reverb & Seduction' is a 10-track tour-de-force road trip from psych rock to country duets, never straying too far from the spaghetti western roots that inspired the band many blood-moons ago. What began as an homage to those cinematic soundscapes of the Italian 60s has evolved well past those not-so-humble beginnings, with Federale now also drawing from wide-ranging inspirations.

Federale has carved out a unique niche within the indie music landscape, blending their signature spaghetti-Western instrumental sound with moody vocal arrangements in the spirit of Lee Hazlewood and late-era Leonard Cohen. With a penchant for the darkly romantic, our narrator guides us through these stories in deep baritone.. Distorted guitars, mellotrons and 70s inspired string arrangements sit side by side with driving drum patterns and moaning pedal steel.

Recorded at Revolver Studios in Portland, this album was engineered by Collin Hegna, Matt Thomson and Andrew Joslyn, who boasts five 5 Grammy Award winning albums. Mixed by Hegna with Jeff Stuart Saltzman (The Black Keys, The High Violets) and Matt Thomson, it was mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering. The album also involves numerous Portland rock-scene vets, including talents from The Dandy Warhols, The Shivas, Roselit Bone, Rogue Wave and Delines.  Members of The Black Angels, Mission Spotlight and Courtney Barnett's Band, plus Grammy-nominated producer Hunter Lea (Nancy Sinatra / Lee Hazlewood reissues) and Andrew Joslyn (Nancy Wilson, Kei$ha, Macklemore, Mark Lanegan),

 Maintaining a retro vibe, Federale's records have always sounded period-correct for an alternate-universe 1971, where rock and roll never caught on. Earlier, the band shared the singles 'Heaven Forgive Me','No Strangers'and 'Advice From A Stranger'.

'Reverb & Seduction' is out noweverywhere digitally, includingApple Music, Spotify, Tidal and Bandcamp. Also released onCD andlimited edition vinyl, the album available from fine record dealers and viaBandcamp.

TOUR DATES
AUG 23  Portland, OR - The Showdown
AUG 24  San Francisco, CA - Kilowatt Bar
OCT 05  Reno, NV - Offbeat Festival
OCT 31  Austin, TX - Levitation Festival


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