Hear the Brooklyn outfit’s ‘Plumbers Unite!’ in advance.
New York quintet Foyer Red have announced the release of their keenly awaited debut album.
Yarn The Hours Away was recorded at Brooklyn’s Figure8 Studios with Jonathan Schenke and is set for release on May 19th through Carpark Records. The album succeeds the rising indie rock outfit’s widely praised 2021 debut EP Zigzag Wombat and a steady stream of subsequent singles.
Aligning with the announcement of Yarn The Hours Away this week the band have also shared its opening statement ‘Plumbers Unite!’, a typically off kilter and playful affair that pairs soft-spoken group vocals with knotted melodic lines skilfully drawn from the math rock playbook.
Singer, keyboardist and clarinetist Elana Riordan explains of the new single,
“My first few lines in this song reference a predetermined goal and the act of running in place; it places the character in a side-scroller video game. It’s the everyday grind taken literally but augmented in the context of a game with objectives, points, a finite amount of lives, etc. When the day is done however, the protagonist exits the simulation and ponders the sentience of the console, feeling strange about the possibility after several hours of manipulation. When I was little I was obsessed with my gamecube, but after entering cheat codes on my Harvest Moon game, I felt sooooooo guilty. I impulsively deleted my game data and later had recurring nightmares about my gamecube’s anger towards me, something I knew was unrealistic but felt so creepy and real.”
Hear ‘Plumbers Unite!’ in advance below.
Yarn The Hours Away
1 ‘Plumbers Unite!’
2 ‘Unwaxed Flavored Floss’
3 ‘Wetland Walk’
4 ‘A Barnyard Bop’
5 ‘Etc’
6 ‘Gorgeous’
7 ‘Blue Jazz’
8 ‘Pocket’
9 ‘Oh, David’
10 ‘Time Slips’
11 ‘Big Paws’
12 ‘Toy Wagon’
Yarn The Hours Away releases on May 19th via Carpark Records. Pre-order the album on red vinyl and CD here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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