In the dingy snowdrifts of a Chicago January, a deep red stringed chorus leaks out from a third-story window. A one-eyed cat howls along as three singers yawn in harmony, following the lead of an old mountain refrain into a strangely tropical chorus, dissolving into a tin pan verse, their voices a tangle of poetry and non-wordal hooting.
Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “Weirdly hypnotic and catchy" and "Absolutely bewitching," 80 Foots — the world’s only End Times vocal trio — formed in 2013 after collaborating on Theater Oobleck’s Baudelaire In A Box project, and have steadily grown a repertoire of songs that harvests from old-time, early American, and international music forms to meditate on death, sadness, and falling down stairs. Their 11-song debut release is an acerbic benediction to our present era of woe, meandering through a fitful journey of irritation, confusion, unaccountable equanimity, surprise, more irritation, remorse, and, finally, resigned elegy. All with pretty harmonies. 80 Foots is made up of singer-songwriters Emmy Bean, T-Roy Martin, and Chris Schoen.
Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “Weirdly hypnotic and catchy" and "Absolutely bewitching," 80 Foots — the world’s only End Times vocal trio — formed in 2013 after collaborating on Theater Oobleck’s Baudelaire In A Box project, and have steadily grown a repertoire of songs that harvests from old-time, early American, and international music forms to meditate on death, sadness, and falling down stairs. Their 11-song debut release is an acerbic benediction to our present era of woe, meandering through a fitful journey of irritation, confusion, unaccountable equanimity, surprise, more irritation, remorse, and, finally, resigned elegy. All with pretty harmonies. 80 Foots is made up of singer-songwriters Emmy Bean, T-Roy Martin, and Chris Schoen.