Listen To This | FEET – ‘Goodbye (So Long, Farewell)’

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Indie band FEET drop new single ‘Goodbye (So Long, Farewell)’ ahead of the release of their new album, out on 14th June

I was awake at half past five this morning. I unstuck my eyelids to see a slash of golden light playing through the blinds, and when I pulled out my earphones a wood pigeon on his morning rounds filled my head with lonely coos. My legs flopped out the side of the bed and dragged my cursing body to the kitchen.

I poured the coffee beans out into the grinder and blended them into a coarse powder, spooning a heap into a cafetière and dousing them in steaming water from the kettle. They swirled behind the glass like glitter in a bath bomb for a short while, until being forced to the bottom by a plunger pushed by my tired, hungry hand.

I sat in the park for a while, sipping coffee out of a camping cup and looking out toward the Channel. Not so long ago, UK indie darlings FEET were making their way across those sparkling waters on their way back from tour. Some time later, the experience would inspire a rather lovely new track called ‘Goodbye (So Long, Farewell)’, lifted straight from their new album ‘Make It Up’, due for release on June 14th via Sub Cat Records.

How does FEET manage to capture the slow peace of a five-thirty morning routine so vividly? It’s not very hard to pin down: the whole track is slow, sludgy and warm. A cigarette in the seventies would evoke the same sort of feeling. It’s why it felt necessary to tell you about my morning; it’s the best way I can explain the feeling of listening to new FEET material without getting bogged down in describing guitar tones.

Singer George Haverson admits to a feeling of loss upon the band’s return from a string of shows across Europe, demoted from touring musician to simply ‘musician’. 

“You’ve eaten Europe’s chips and it’s now time to hit traffic. ‘Goodbye’ is an ode to that loss but is also a fond embrace of whatever is waiting upon your return.”

Haverson’s gratitude for a return to normalcy is clear in ‘Goodbye’. It’s a comforting embrace of a song which is able to express a tinge of sadness with an awareness of the value of change. Dark cannot exist without light and all that. It falls into a certain category of ‘summer song’ that a large amount of ‘Make It Up’ seems to be happily playing into – nostalgic, simple, lazy, lovely.

Get your teeth into it before the album arrives. Make a hot drink, kiss your dog on the head, and be grateful that it’s almost summer.

Listen to ‘Goodbye (So Long, Farewell)’ below:

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