Exclusive track premiere of ‘Nobody Can Show You’ by Mushfoot, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Time Before Land’, out October 15, 2022 via Moone Records.

“’Nobody Can Show You’ is a song about learning through doing. The first verse is about driving stick (“start with your foot on the clutch then slowly let up and give it some gas“) and the second verse is about sharing intimacy with another person (“start with a casual chat and maybe it leads to a gentle caress”). Certain things we can’t really practice or prepare for…”

New York-based band Mushfoot will release their debut album, ‘Time Before Land’, on Moone Records in Fall 2022. This 8-song collection began as a remote collaboration in the early days of quarantine between Greg Albert (TheRainbows, Spite FuXXX, Holy Wisdom, LLC.), Ian Davis (Relatives, Ian Davis: Rock Band) and Katie Vogel (Relatives). Albert and Vogel were staying together in Brooklyn and Davis was across the city in Northern Manhattan, and the three would share songs they were working on for the others to add onto and return. Through this process the songs slowly became layered and took on new forms. Mushfoot embraces messiness, vulnerability, and sounds created from simple means stretched and manipulated beyond recognition. Named after Ian’s pet Mystery Snail, Mushfoot has yet to play a show but were they to… it would be very loud.

Greg Albert mixed the songs and sent them to John Dieterich (of Deerhoof) who mastered them and connected us with Micah and Caleb of Moone Records.

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‘Time Before Land’ is a collection of homemade demos that gradually blossomed into a record. Soft vocals rest on top of beds of controlled chaos and dense textures; drum machines coexist with scrappy drumming; Greg Albert’s production approach incorporates MIDI and EQ’ing common sounds into abstraction. The record is messy and vulnerable with songs about love (“in the interval in between moments I’ve loved… is where we first met”), persistence in the face of a demoralizing world (“is there an order? how it’s supposed to be? Stay on it.”) and independent know-how (“nobody can show you if you can’t figure it out”).

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