FEET
Feet
FEET announce their new album Gung-Ho, out 2nd April 2027 via Submarine Cat Records, and share lead single 'Slowly'.
The album's elastic, exasperated lead single 'Slowly' pairs rubbery basslines with scratchy guitar stabs, opening with a blunt complaint: "this country takes forever". Its repeated instruction to "go slowly" takes swipe at a country pouring money into promises of progress while everyday life grinds to a halt, as vocalist George Haverson explains: "I’m fed up with the ‘how long’s a piece of string’ explanation to why developments in our country are dragging to an impossibly slow pace. It seems bad actors and career politicians get paid and get out quicker than we can fill in a pothole. From HS2 to Brexit, I can’t help but watch inconceivable amounts of money get thrown into the void of ‘progress’ without tapping my watch."
Produced by Ali Chant, Gung-Ho marks the third album from FEET. Built around their angular guitar work and dry humour, the album takes aim at the modern tendency to push towards the future without much thought for what gets left behind. Musically, it retains the band’s loose, raucous approach while bringing greater restraint to the arrangements and lyrics, resulting in a more measured record without diluting the character that defines them.
With an uneasy mixture of amusement and apprehension running through the album, FEET are interested in how readily we turn everyday disappointment into entertainment, and what happens when watching and laughing becomes a substitute for taking part. Even optimism can start to feel like an elaborate act of self-deception. "I think the fear around technology replacing people is partly misplaced if we’ve already removed human instincts and compassion from our everyday lives," the band say. "I feel like the new generation is most aware of the decay but the internet affords us the luxury of seeing humour in it from a decreasingly safe distance.”
Approaching ten years since their formation, FEET remain familiar with the strange combination of conviction and doubt required to keep a band alive. Gung-Ho draws on the time they’ve invested, the futures they've imagined and the humour that helps them carry on when those things don’t quite line up. "You give so much of your life to making music and being able to put out something you believe in,” they explain. "It’s coming up to the 10 year mark for us and resilience, self pity and delusion have been vital tools to keeping FEET alive and kicking. Those themes are littered throughout the album and songs naturally gravitated towards those expressions.”
There is affection beneath the frustration: for the band, for making music, and for the ordinary details of a life that can feel insignificant when measured only in achievements. "The mundanity of life is rich with inspiration, and we all have something to offer," they say. "Your time is your greatest resource."
FEET's new album Gung-Ho is out 2nd April 2027 via Submarine Cat Records. FEET play three sold-out shows at The George Tavern in London this week. New single 'Slowly' is out now.
