Video: Slow Hollows, ‘Old Yeller’

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Slow Hollows (Photo by Elizabeth Klein)

Shapeshifting L.A. band Slow Hollows had a shining moment in 2019 with the arrival of their third album, “Actors,” the release gaining added currency because of contributions from Tyler, the Creator, Björn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John), Ryan Beatty and Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, among others. Slow Hollows disbanded in 2020, but main man Austin Feinstein, then working under the name Austin Anderson, continued writing songs.

Slow Hollows is now Feinstein’s solo project, and “Old Yeller,” released Monday, is the first single since “Actors.”

There’s a world-weary storyteller’s tint to “Old Yeller,” with a simple acoustic guitar  and some sepia-toned atmospherics. “‘Old Yeller’ was recorded in two or three takes one afternoon in September ‘’22,” Feinstein says. “The lyrics take inspiration from the job of an old vacuum cleaner; feeling dusty and worn down, working over the same familiar spaces over and over again, until reaching the point of frustration and resignation. Taking production inspiration from John Cale, we decided to add a drone underneath the track.”

Feinstein directed the song’s video, which involved some cow wranglers, and the tune is part of a larger, to-be-announced project. In the announcement of the new work, Feinstein spoke of “making a cohesive record,” so there is more Slow Hollows on the way.

||| Watch: The video for “Old Yeller”

||| Live: Slow Hollows play the Constellation Room on March 14 (tickets) and the Lodge Room on May 10 (tickets.)

||| Previously: “You Are Now on Fire,” “Lessons for Later,” “Last Dance”