If you know anything about Wilderness — the Baltimore art punk band which Vulture Feather ultimately derived from — you probably remember how the band worked in enigmatic fashion on their own terms, oft without little promotional buzz leading into their albums. That they disappeared just as seamlessly into the ether was only fitting. Since the band’s co-vocalist and guitarist Colin McCann and bassist Brian Gossman reemerged 15 years later alongside drummer Eric Fiscus on the opposite side of the coast as Vulture Feather, there’s been nothing but an abundance of creative prolificity and embrace of their spiritual sounding post-hardcore-indebted art punk, however.

Since releasing their 2023 debut album, Liminal Fields, the adjoining extended play Merge Now In Friendship, and this year’s much slept-on sophomore follow-up, It Will Be Like Now, they’ve been living out there in the flesh touring with modern kindreds like FACS and getting hand-picked as upcoming support for Black Eyes, and it’s as though in their respective sonic realm of the underground, they’re celebrating — and being celebrated properly as — an energy that’s visibly present around us.

Keeping on pace, the California trio will be capping off 2025 with yet another EP, the 4-song Craving and Aversion, due out on December 12th on Felte Records. Leadoff single and opener “Pleasant Obstacle” — in what has become motif in Vulture Feather’s sound — nourishes from the well of both urgency and a whelming awe of a massive nature that informs their connect between the organic and how it invigorates their desire to create, entering the scene in a weaving tapestry of atmospheric guitars and surmounting rhythms before driving the instrumentation into a gallop. It feels like an exercise in carving out joy in the mountainous face of modern day heaviness.

Directed by: Aaron Ray

Vulture Feather’s Craving and Aversion will be released December 12th on Felte Records.