Foyer Red

“The Brooklyn art rock trio’s choppy harmonies and sweetly free-associative tunes are a little bit freaky and more than a little bit funny.” - Pitchfork

“it’s got a nice sense of shambling, warm weirdness to it, like if Pavement and Deerhoof and Letters To Cleo had somehow become the same band.“ - Stereogum “Brooklyn band Foyer Red set themselves apart with dueling vocals from Elana Riordan and Mitch Myers. It is the latter who brings a dose of weirdness to the mix, bringing his warbling baritone to the voice of reason as Riordan battles against isolation and loneliness.” - The FADER

“their debut came bursting with irrepressible energy, jagged melodies, and dynamic songwriting.” - Under The Radar Foyer Red return with the plodding and serene new track “Pollen City”, which, much like its subject matter, pops and bursts with energy. A bit late to the party with fall around the corner, “Pollen City”, is all about the boundless possibilities of spring, emerging from hibernation into a world that feels ripe and ready for anything. The ebb and flow of Mitch Myers and Kristina Moore’s guitar lines imitate the awakening from winter into spring, when the buzzy energy of the change of seasons, captured in Elana Riordan’s vocal fluctuations, brings the city back to life. Their slinky guitar lines and swelling rhythm section propel the song before it inevitably culminates in a final, cacophonous, cathartic release

Their latest single is the first the band wrote collaboratively as a 5-piece following the release of their debut EP, Zigzag Wombat, and Foyer Red’s post-lockdown entrance into playing shows. Since emerging in late 2021, Foyer Red has played shows all over New York and the Northeast with acts like Cola, Empath, Babehoven, Why Bonnie, Peaer, and Diane Cofee. The band finished up their first tour with New Orleans’ post-punk outfit Lawn this summer.

Speaking to “Pollen City”, lead singer, lyricist, and clarinetist, Elana Riordan says;

“There’s a special kind of buzzy energy in the air when the seasons change and the weather gets warmer; Pollen City is about that inherent impulse to stir things up, sometimes in a wicked sort of way. This track is the first song we wrote from scratch collaboratively as a 5-piece late last year, with “Flipper” and “Pickles” being more associated with the Zigzag Wombat era. I like to think of it as a bridge into the new world the five of us have created together, teasing somenew sounds and forms, shapes andcolors, etc.”

Foyer Red’s “Pollen City” is their first collaboratively written song as a 5 -piece and acts as a transition from their beginnings in a basement practice space during the depths of the early pandemic into their current iteration. The ebb and flow of the catchy guitar lines imitate the
awakening from winter into spring, when the buzzy energy of the change of seasons, captured in Elana Riordan’s vocal fluctuations, brings the city back to life. Sonically, the band is playing with overlapping vocals, distortion effects, and synths. They allow their slinky guitar lines and
swelling rhythm section to propel the song before it inevitably culminates in a cacophonous, cathartic release.