Our debut full-length record, “Let It Move You”, is finished and coming your way in August! We poured our souls into this album, and the result is a piece that goes from stripped-down acoustic songs to full-band explosions of joy and celebration, with interludes woven through that tell the story of our year: Morgan’s brain surgery, the pandemic, and our collective soul-searching.  

If you scroll down to the bottom, you can a) pre-order vinyl records and get all sorts of other goodies and experiences (private carpool karaoke picnic, anyone?), and b) read a detailed timeline of how this album (and The Feelings Parade) came to be. If you believe in this project, your support at this stage will make an enormous difference in how well we’re able to get this record out to those who may be nourished by it.

Hey, gorgeous people! We’re Morgan Bolender and Scott Ferreter, AKA The Feelings Parade, a sometimes duo (and sometimes full band!) whose primary goal is to create spaces--through music & community for all of us to feel all of the things we need to feel in order to be healthy, whole human beings. We believe in our bones that expanding our collective capacity to feel will create a safer and more beautiful world for all of us.  

In order to make these deep-feeling spaces possible beyond the scope of our live performances, we’ve spent 18 months straight pouring ourselves into our debut full-length album. It’s called “Let It Move You,” and it holds more of our hearts & souls than anything we’ve ever made.  

We went into the studio to begin this project in February of 2020, oblivious to the wave of struggle heading our way. We ended up making this album through the pandemic, Morgan’s unexpected brain surgery, the deaths of family and friends, immense collective unrest, and two wildfire seasons, all while being between homes.  

This album asked for everything we had. We pulled it off by working remotely and in-person with 27 of our most talented friends over the course of 18 months, breaking down and rebuilding our home studio eight times to create the most beautiful offering we could manage.  

This album’s got range—from stripped-down, heartbreak-inspired songs, to wild celebrations of joy and truth. We even incorporated some of the voice messages we sent each other around the time of Morgan’s seizure & brain surgery into the album, putting music to that part of our story. All said and done, we went all-out, and we’re proud to say that we haven’t heard anything quite like this album.  

We’re now taking on the immense task of releasing this piece out into the world. We're taking pre-orders and offering a whole bunch of other goodies as a way to raise funds for the creation of music videos, a mini-documentary telling the story of the album, as well as recouping production expenses, paying for PR + advertising, artwork, videos, and having the album pressed to vinyl. 

-This record was a collaboration between 29 musicians (including us), and 6 engineers. As artists who are against the perpetuation of the starving artist archetype, we prioritized paying our collaborators fairly. Not including our thousands of hours, making the music for this record cost us $19,021.  

-Vinyl pressing: We’ve put in an order for our first 500 vinyl records!   

-A mini documentary about the process of making this record, made by Carey Averbook: we’re thrilled to have the footage we’ve captured made into a small documentary about the making of the album.  

-Studio Rental fees: we did as much of this album at home as we could, but needed to rent bigger studios for some of the harder-to-capture full-band sessions and vocals.  

-Album Art: Matt Goff is doing our album art design, and Sam Stone is creating designs for t-shirts, postcards, and a coloring book(!)  

-Music Videos: we’re already at work with a local-legend filmmaker, Pete Lee and stunning dancer, Dorien Blue, for one of the first singles, and have several other music videos in mind.  

-PR + Advertising: we wouldn’t be doing all this if we didn’t believe that the album has people that it needs to reach beyond the scope of our more immediate reach. We don’t know who those people are yet, but we’re going to give this thing its best chance of finding them by investing in getting it heard. 

We've had to trust, over and over, that as long as we keep pouring ourselves into the music, it will all work out. And we do — because of you. You’ve shown us time-and-time-again that the community that gathers around this music is truly miraculous: supportive, big-hearted, generous, and unusually soulful. We’re so grateful to get to be a part of this community with you all, and can hardly wait to share this musical nourishment with you. Thanks for all the ways you’ve already shown up for us, and for continuing to come along for the ride. May it take us all ever more deeply into our own hearts (where, of course, we’ll find each other). Whether or not you’ve just sneezed: bless you.