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James Felice was unsure if his band would ever make another record. It was 2017, and Felice, a multi-instrumentalist, secondary vocalist and founding member of the Hudson Valley roots-rock collective the Felice Brothers, had spent much of the year touring in Conor Oberst’s band alongside other members of the Felice Brothers. Meanwhile, James’ older brother Ian, the Felice Brothers’ primary singer, songwriter and guitarist, was focusing on a solo album. And by the end of the year, two longtime band members, fiddle player Greg Farley and bassist Josh “Christmas Clapton” Rawson,...

The Felice Brothers have announced details of Undress, the follow-up to 2016’s Life in the Dark, due May 3rd.

The upstate New York band offer a preview of the record with the album-opening title track, which is composed of dark, dizzying impressionistic images — “trigger happy deputees” and “conservatives in lobster bibs” — taken from a country plagued by corruption and greed.

“Chain of collusion/endless confusion,” Ian Felice sings in the horn-laden folk-rocker, which mentions everything from Bank of America to Kellyanne Conway. “When will we see the light of day?...