Biography
Foot Foot has self-produced three albums crafted from the notebook jottings and dream phrases of Robin Brown. The spinning dustclouds of early lineups have coalesced into the dusty matrimonial pair of Josh and Robin Brown, who travel the old Camino Real sowing their songs amongst the California poppies.The band's first recording was a demo created in a week long home recording session. It features years of careful songcraft performed on half-broken instruments: bells, acoustic slide guitar, casio keyboard and cock-eyed percussion. This is music to dream to, evoking the sand-scabbed knees and street-tarred soles of Los Angeles childhood.
Foot Foot's second release, "Snaggle and Buck", was put out by Oedipus Records in 2006. It is more polished than the roughly hewn demo, but still ragged and whisperingly raucous. They spent the next year playing all over LA, San Francisco and up into Oregon and Washington. Two split 7" followed. The first was part of Not Not Fun's Bored Fortress series and was split with My Little Red Toe and blessed in glitter. On the second split 7", released on Oedipus Records, Foot Foot was joined by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and was dressed in Carrie Dietz's wonderful dream drawings.
Foot Foot's third album,"Trumpet", (to be released February of 2008 on Oedipus/Aagoo Records,) takes the energy of the first two albums and explodes it onto the canvas of rock music. The title refers to both loud horns and the hearing trumpet used by the deaf to capture the most elusive of sounds. As the title suggests, this album teeters in bipolar frenzy, blowing up with drums and fuzz guitars only to be put back to bed with softly fingerpicked murmurings. This is Foot Foot's most diverse album, but the core of the songs have all the lyrical tension and visual poetry of the first two releases.