photo credit: Nat Schmid, @melancholy.everyday
Today Portland band foamboy shares their first new music of 2022 with the extremely meta new single, “Song About You.” The band has a few tour dates / festival appearances coming up, including their first appearance at SXSW – see full list of dates below. Stream the new single HERE via new label N.I.T.A. Records.
“‘Song About You’ is a very meta song. This guy kept bugging me about a song I had written about him in the past, so I wrote this song about that experience. I really like that it’s a sexy slow jam about a very uncomfortable situation! I’m worried that this dude will try to talk to me about ‘Song About You,’ which would be even more meta. Like how the reflection of a mirror goes on forever.” – Katy Ohsiek
foamboy are a Portland-based duo comprised of producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek. They met in Salem, OR and worked together for a number of years in the experimental musical collective Chromatic Colors. In this group, Wil and Katy collaborated with a wide variety of instrumentalists, released 2 full-length albums, and graced the stages of many outdoor festivals, bars, and basements. In the events of 2020, Wil and Katy took this time to take on a new project, and foamboy came to be.
foamboy’s 2021 debut album, My Sober Daydream, is a neat package of jazz-inspired danceable pop with a hyper-personal lyrical edge. Listeners will enjoy influences of disco and funk styles while being reminded of artists like The Internet, Men I Trust, and Thundercat. The lyrics wrangle with topics of identity, relationships, gender dynamics, and late-stage capitalism; the delivery of these lyrics akin to a conversation over the phone with your best friend. Katy’s melodies twist and float over Wil’s rich, synth-centric soundscapes.
foamboy is:
Vocals – Katy Ohsiek (she/they)
Piano/Synth – Wil Bakula (he/him)
Drums – Greyfaen Eastland (he/him)
Guitar – Keenan Dorn (he/him)
Bass – Jarred Venti (he/him)
TOUR DATES
3/3 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
3/13 – 3/18 Austin, TX – SXSW
4/28 Portland, OR – Lollipop Shoppe
5/5 Seattle, WA – Belltown Bloom
foamboy LINKS:
Website / Instagram / Facebook / YouTube / Spotify / Apple / N.I.T.A. Records
