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"Foot Foot's "Snaggle and Buck""

"...The band ditches the sprawl of L.A., instead creating a world that's reminiscent of Carson McCullers, Tom Waits, and a splash of Beat Happening. The first two tracks gently meander out on a slow but steady guitar-twang road, with the third track completely catching the listener off guard. "Criminal Wealth" breaks the lull with a clanging, bell ringing rhythm that sounds like what you'd hear a junk peddler play as he drives his wagon to meet the devil..."
- Record Relapse


"Foot Foot show @Pehrspace 8/7/07"

"Foot Foot began their month-long odyssey at Pehrspace the only way they knew how: playing their wonderful tunes-ACTUAL TUNES! They may be the one band on the scene that doesn't get off by being full of shock tactics and visuals, but by actually writing well-put-together pieces of music with stories and harmonies. Hopefully more bands will be coming like Foot Foot, which could put an end to the tiresome and overdone psychedelic trend of recent times ..."

- L.A Record


"Foot Foot"

"Foot Foot are like a tiny folk orchestra- building totally beautiful and layered arrangements via slide guitar, found objects,et al. Their songs possess an oddly classic feeling and nerve tingling shimmer, and they are undeniably one of the most exciting young bands from the City of Angels." - Portland Mercury - Portland Mercury


""Quiet Grace""

"Foot Foot, a four peice normally, but tonight only two (vocals over electric and acoustic guitar), played to a half-full room. One of the pitfalls of quiet bands like this is that they tend to more or less bore people love, even those who own the record. The show becomes a polite endurance test. Foot Foot didn't take the easy way out, though: singer Robin Dietz's voice is intelligent, earnest, and original and Josh Brown's guitar work is innovative and intense (not afraid to do a solo either, which deserves credit). Their songs were strong enough to stand on their own without novelty, so that the audience gave their undivided attention not out of obligation, but genuine appreciation of the song- a dying trend. - District Magazine (May 16th, 2007)


"Size Matters"

"There are two new instalments in the excellent Bored Fortress series of split 7"s from the Not Not Fun label and they're up to every imaginable standard. My Little Red Toe and Foot Foot (Not Not Fun 7") share a variety of small gestures with each other (and us), all of them in the psychedelic campfire mode. Both groups seem to be from LA, but they're not from any neighbourhood I recognize; they sound way too friendly." - Wire Magazine


Discography

2005 Demo (EP) (self released)

2005 "M Nausea Twa" single on Not Not Fun Compilation

2006 "Pilgrim Hat on and Indian Summer" split 7" (with My Little Red Toe) on Not Not Fun's Bored Fortress 7" Series

2006 "Snaggle and Buck" (LP) Oedipus Records

2007 Split 7" with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Oedipus)

2008 "Trumpet" (LP) on Oedipus and Aagoo Records

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Foot Foot grew with the dandelions and crab grass from the cracked sidewalk gardens of Los Angeles. The spinning dustclouds of early lineups eventually coalesced into a dusty matrimonial pair, traveling the old Camino Real to sow their songs amongst the California poppies. Foot Foot has self produced 3 albums crafted from the notebook jottings and dream phrases of Robin Brown the band's creative pioneer. The band's first recording was a demo created in a single - week long - home recording. Featuring bells, acoustic slide guitar, casio keyboard and cock-eyed sea-roving percussion the demo is a musical centaur - the result of years of careful songcraft performed cross legged on a spanish tile floor with half broken intruments. This is music to dream to, evoking the sand-scabbed knees and street tarred soles of Los Angeles childhood.

Foot Foot's second release though still self produced is more polished than the roughly hewn demo and was put out by Oedipus Records in 2006. Titled 'Snaggle and Buck' the band set out to explore the ragged and whisperingly racous approach set out by their demo work. For the next year they played all over LA, San Francisco and up into Oregon and Washington.

Foot Foot's 3rd album (to be released February of 2008 on Oedipus and Aagoo Records) takes the direction of the first two albums and explodes it onto the canvas of rock music. The album is titled 'Trumpet' - referring both two loud horns and the hearing trumpet used to capture the smallest of sounds. As the title suggests, this album teeters in bipolar frenzy, blown up with drums and fuzz guitars, just to be put back to bed with softly fingerpicked murmurs. This is Foot Foot's most diverse album, but through it all the core of the songs still have all the lyric tension and visual poetry of the first two releases.

Foot Foot is going to spend the Fall of '07 touring the West Coast with Peter and the Wolf.