Brooklyn indie rockers Foyer Red have returned recently with their single “Pickles”, which follows up “Flipper”, which was released earlier in the summer.
“Pickles” was a track that was cut from their debut EP, Zigzag Wombat, another slinky 90s rock jam with some awesome guitar tone, production, and a vocal performance that is somehow both playful and emotive. The band sounds like so many grat 90s acts that came before, yet on a very different and singular path very much of their own.
Speaking on the track, the band’s Elana Riordan describes its meaning:
“The lyrics are about depressive episodes trapping you in your own home, turning physical space into dungeon space. Everything feels stale; the air gets too warm but you can’t get up to fix it. You’re relying on external factors to make a difference in your world and there’s a sort of intersection of comfort and discomfort. “Pickles” attempts to capture the feeling of this building pressure, as the song expands and the instrumentation gets ever more frantic, the chaos grows until it becomes unsustainable, inevitably crashing down upon itself.
Find “Pickles” streaming below.
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