Foot – You Are Weightless

 

 

Foot – You Are Weightless
Copper Feast Records – 2022
Rock, Alternative, Grunge, Stoner
Rated: ****

The prog rock influences have been omnipresent throughout the heavy underground of late. But there’s another genre that has been rising to the surface more and more of all that heaviness we all love so dearly. And that’s grunge. I’ve heard talk about a post-grunge genre, I’ve heard of a predicted complete reemergence of the old grunge sound. But the way Foot uses grunge on their new album You Are Weightless is the way I love to hear it! Imploring that nineties alternative and even that nineties alternative weirdly poppy approach. You know, the way the Dandy Warhols for instance did back then. Or even some of that sound, the wave of British bands of the nineties, brought with them. But don’t get me wrong, there’s also more heavy stuff here, more stonerrock and more grittiness as well. There are moments when the good boys of Alice In Chains seems to be playing along for instance. And then there’s that Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s cover, Gold Lion. Kind of taking all that we just mentioned, that British take, that weird poppy alternative nineties sound, that good old grunge, to new heights. Melbourne four-piece Foot, is spearheaded by Paul Holden, who’s responsible for all the music and lyrics. Seems to have set his goal to bring us the best grunge album possible. Drawing inspiration from Mark Lanegan for opener Bitter, Holden with his overt drawling vocals, the guitar riff, the hook, it all, once again, immediately shows the You Are Weightless colors, the ones we already mentioned. Third track Fire Dance is perhaps the heaviest of songs on the album. Groovy, dreamy, yet also incredibly choppy and edgy. And then there’s the keyboards that are used expertly where possible throughout the album. All leads us to keep re-stating what we said continuously throughout this little write-up, it’s the grunge done right, it’s the grunge done poppy and it’s the grunge done stonerized. And it’s all done so incredibly well!

(Written by JK)

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