Spearheaded by longtime The Brian Jonestown Massacre bassist Collin Hegna, Federale was conceived as an outlet to channel inspiration from ‘60s & ‘70s European soundtracks, particularly those from Italy made famous by the Spaghetti Western & Giallo genres by artists such as Ennio Morricone & Goblin. Federale's covers EP “Our Side Of Their Story” (2021) features the songs of Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Nancy & Lee, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave, Ennio Morricone & Nat King Cole As a mournful whistle carves through fevered melancholia, the first stirrings of No Justice‘s title track evoke the mean streets and rusted prairies of a blighted small folk roiling with palpable desperation. Embracing the enormous scope of orchestral cinematic production while subduing the bombast of electrified riffage, Collin Hegna has honed a taut, gleaming precision from his passion project’s signature sound. When his honeyed baritone waltzes with the operatic wizardry of bandmate Maria Karlin, the finely-etched lyrical depths fortify Federale’s cinematic sway. See also: The Black Angels, The Shivas, Spindrift

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