FEET - 'Peace & Quiet' — When The Horn Blows

Booting their way back onto the DIY scene, North London's FEET have released ‘Peace & Quiet’ the first taste of their upcoming EP, Walking Machine.

After dropping their debut album What's Inside Is More Than Just Ham back in 2019, the five-piece took the leap into living together, to become what they call "a hive mind". Fast-forward to the 'Peace & Quiet' music video and their local haunts of Muswell Hill feature heavily in setting a scene of grass roots nostalgia and gritty sepia-toned reality. Buzz cuts, clippers, offies, chippies. The sub-2 minute track blasts off about needing a break from pastiche punk and bland gentrification, while the band themselves state the meaning of the song as "demanding more from the current music scene". After a long year of unified struggling as an industry, "what comes after this peace and quiet? That's what excites [them] the most".

FEET have worked hard to establish an inimitable sound they can be happy with for their next stage, finally coining themselves "crease pop" to embody their direction for good hooks and choruses, but "nothing too self-indulgent - it's still got a bit of edge". The four-track EP comes out on 6th August via their new home of Nice Swan Records, followed by a string of fittingly intimate gigs to show it off.

Words by Alice Jenner