Footings – “Reverie”

Been a little bit since I’ve heard from New Hampshire’s Footings around here, but it’s great to have ‘em back on the speakers. The band’s been a fixture in the New England underground for years, with songwriter Eric Gagne acting as a Northeast fulcrum, booking the revered Thing in Spring at Nova Arts for the past couple of decades. Coming out of a period of stagnation and hibernation, the new album centers around the slow process of turning around momentum. First single, “Reverie” bounds into the scene on a bed of fuzz and Gagne’s laconic drawl. It’s got an ease to it, a celebration of new light and life, an emergence from a dark period. With a nineties sunburn in its bars, the song tangles with the ghosts of Northeast indie, wrapped in the fleece of country. RSTB fave Elisabeth Fuchsia (Bonnie Prince Billy, Ryan Davis’s Roadhouse Band) adds strings to the album while Charlie Chronopoulos lends some pedal steel, some engineering, and mixing as well. The new album, The Worm Moon, is out August 1st from Don’t Live Like Me and Feeding Tube.

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