Foyer Red (Carpark) talk new LP with BrooklynVegan / Share “Pocket”

“Fuck-you crayon rock…At its best, their debut is a little bit freaky and more than a little bit funny.”
Pitchfork

“A great introduction to a band whose wonky pop songwriting blends with surreal lyricism and moments of alt-rock mayhem.”
FADER

“Satisfyingly disjointed.”
Stereogum

“Foyer Red somehow manage to outdo themselves…zany, reality-bending bops.”
Paste

“All Dutch Angles and jerky percussion…a joy.”
BrooklynVegan

In a little less than a month Brooklyn’s Foyer Red will release their debut LP Yarn The Hours Away on Carpark Records (The Beths, Cloud Nothings, @). The follow up to their promising 2021 EP, Zigzag Wombat, which earned high praise from outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum and Paste, the album has seen the release of two singles, “Gorgeous” and “Plumbers Unite!”, which FADER described as “a great introduction to a band whose wonky pop songwriting blends with surreal lyricism and moments of alt-rock mayhem.”

Today, the band are sharing a final pre-release single from the record, a track called “Pocket,” and speaking with about the new album with BrooklynVegan, who describe the track as “a skronky, catchy whirlwind that shifts gears a few times over the course of three and a half minutes.

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“Pocket” sees the band just barely organizing chaos, taking a track that twists and turns into something as danceable as it is unusual. The lyrics play with the idea that “anything is possible” and the band proves this point — showing off each band member’s ability to bounce guitar, woodwind, and auxiliary sounds off one another. 

Singer Elana Riordan expands on the song’s background below:

“This song was by all means a wild card for the album. We’d played around with pieces of the song for a while and would sometimes wordlessly revert to them during practices, but we had put the pieces aside until very organically finishing the instrumentation about a week before we went into the studio. I had no words for the song, just an idea about the main part’s melody and the vocals. As we were tracking our songs in the first few days of recording, I was glued to my notebook, thinking aloud with the rest of the band, and then later spilling out silly phrases about time travel, capitalism and our existence/evolution as a species.”

Next month Foyer Red will embark on a tour with new Sub Pop signees Deeper. Full details of that run can be found below.

Yarn The Hours Away will be released on Carpark Records on May 19th. It is available for preorder here.