Footballhead - Weight Of The Truth [LP] Pop

Footballhead - Weight Of The Truth [LP] PopIt would be easy to pigeonhole Footballhead's unapologetically buttrock inspired record Weight of The Truth as simple nostalgia bait. Why wouldn't millennials lust for the days of Halo and energy drinks in carpeted basements they're not convinced they'll ever be able to afford for themselves? Beyond that, why would the zoomers that now intently follow not try and chase the high of hyperreality in a bygone world that looks, to them, downright utopian

an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz

and was musically a central force at the conservatoire until he had to retire at the age of seventy

Lilys) at his Studio Red in March of 1994 and released just six weeks later in early May of that same year on the Teenbeat label

Oliver Child-Lanning on bass and various instruments

Released on Constellation in LP

often chaotic path of life

Moon Rising

performing a unique mix of rare international and American musical traditions from rare 78s

layering his virtuosity over an album that sounds both meticulously crafted and effortlessly cool

Steve Howell is joined by multi-instrumental maestro Fats Kaplin

Clockwork Joe's

" the album plays like a victory lap for a self-made king