Name: Walking Machine
Brand: Feet

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NSWN42

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-07-12

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Black 12"

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Feet

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Alternative / Modern

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Nice Swan

A death metal band from Tampa, Florida, US. Founded in 1993 by Chris Barnes, Allen West, Terry Butler and Greg Gall. Initially a side project that became a full-time band in 1995 after Barnes left Cannibal Corpse.
Feet's current line-up includes *Chris Barnes* on vocals since 1993, *Jeff Hughell* on bass since 2012, *Marco Pitruzella* on drums since 2013, *Ray Suhy* on guitar since 2015, and *Jack Owen* on guitar since 2017.
Similar artists to Feet include Blu-Swing, JAZZIDA GRANDE, FreeTEMPO, Daishi Dance, JABBERLOOP and more.

Nice Swan Records is a UK based independent record label founded by Alex Edwards & Pete Heywoode in 2016. With a passion for discovering and nurturing talent, Nice Swan has quickly become known for its roster of *innovative* artists who push boundaries and defy genres.

Since its inception, Nice Swan has been dedicated to supporting emerging musicians and providing them with the resources they need to thrive in the music industry. The label prides itself on its commitment to artist development, offering guidance and support every step of the way.

With an impressive lineup of *up-and-coming* acts such as *Sports Team*, *Pip Blom*, and *FUR*, Nice Swan continues to make waves in the music scene. Their artists have gained recognition for their unique sound and captivating performances, earning them loyal fans around the world.

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Feet return with a brand-new EP via their new label home Nice Swan Records. It’s the first, eagerly anticipated new music from the indie quartet, since the independent release of their debut album back in 2019.

Having moved into their North London flat together back in September 2019, Feet are now living “like a hive mind” and have level-upped their kinship - both as people and artists - several times over. Spending endless days making music, the band’s journey since their debut has been a rollercoaster - one with a definite U-turn. An initial batch of songs ended up being entirely scrapped after a sobering practice room realisation that, far from sounding like a cohesive second record, “one song sounded like a covers pub band, and another sounded like Eminem could throw some bars over it,” notes Callum. 

And so, they sat down to write a manifesto: one that would tame their overflowing pot of ideas and put some necessary parameters around what they were doing. “No wanky guitar solos, no sailor outfits, no bringing a broom onstage,” jokes George. All fair points. But as well as that, the band started digging into what they actually wanted to sound like, setting up their home studio and taking a bigger interest in production and the atmosphere of the tracks, trying to hit the cross-section of pop music and something a little darker that they’ve always loitered around. 

“We’re not a post punk band, we don’t sound like a ‘London band’ whatever that is, but the indie reference in our shared hive mind is related to a major label, squeaky clean sound which isn’t what we want from our band,” explains George. “You either go the mainstream route or the sleazy South London route and we’re slap bang in the middle, so we’re trying to state our spot. We’re pretty comfortable where we are and this is the direction we wanna take it in”. 

The ‘Walking Machine EP’ takes these ideas and moulds them into four tracks that show a band still more than willing to throw in a liberal smattering of humour at the right moment, but who aren’t relying just on japes to get them through. They’ve still got a classically Feet name for their new direction, Crease Pop, but even that’s got some logic to it. “It’s taking the pop music formula - hooky choruses, nothing too self-indulgent - but it’s still got a bit of edge,” says George. “With Indie music, there’s an element where it can get quite soft and it’s quite easy to go through that phase where you think you sound like The Beach Boys, but we’ve come off the end of that where we want to be a bit grittier.” Having beamed fans into their living room over lockdown with a series of livestreams imbued with more genuine live show energy than most, the tight-knit camaraderie the band have honed over the past year is there for all to see. Far from the group of novices they first emerged as, Feet are now a proper unit.

Walking Machine

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