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Wilderness by The Features
Wilderness is an album by The Features, released in 2011. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 9 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “How It Starts”, on 5 lists with a best position of #20.
Wilderness came out in 2011 on Serpents & Snakes, the imprint Kings of Leon had set up two years earlier for the single purpose of signing the Features, and it's the sound of a Sparta, Tennessee band that had been dropped by a major, put out its own records and kept on swinging. Matt Pelham sings and plays guitar, Roger Dabbs plays bass, Rollum Haas drums and Mark Bond keyboards.
The Features have long been pegged as living somewhere between British Invasion rock and roll and synth-happy pop, and Wilderness plants a boot in each camp: taut, hooky and a little bit nervy. "How It Starts" carried it onto alternative radio, cracking the Top 40 of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, and a self-titled album followed in 2013.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Wilderness on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How It Starts | 5 | #20 | – | 2011–2014 | |
| 2 | Another One | 4 | #29 | – | 2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.