We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Foom​/​Foam

by Foom/Foam

supported by
ninah pixie
ninah pixie thumbnail
stash white
stash white thumbnail
Jonathan Herweg
Jonathan Herweg thumbnail
matt
matt thumbnail
Peter Lamons
Peter Lamons thumbnail
stackhouse-in-dust
stackhouse-in-dust thumbnail
Yuki
Yuki thumbnail
Le Lorraine
Le Lorraine thumbnail
Karmz
Karmz thumbnail
Nina Guo
Nina Guo thumbnail
Scott Bowles
Scott Bowles thumbnail
Eve McGivern
Eve McGivern thumbnail
Jeff Reeves
Jeff Reeves thumbnail
淳 浅井
淳 浅井 thumbnail
JpMsSs
JpMsSs thumbnail
The Museum of Viral Memory
The Museum of Viral Memory thumbnail
Brendan Landis
Brendan Landis thumbnail
Colin Wales
Colin Wales thumbnail
dusted & social
dusted & social thumbnail
Matthew Taggart
Matthew Taggart thumbnail
Weird Ear Records
Weird Ear Records thumbnail
cklequ
cklequ thumbnail
tOMMy biRChEtt
tOMMy biRChEtt thumbnail
Billy D
Billy D thumbnail
nomayo
nomayo thumbnail
mizoest
mizoest thumbnail
fluhzzz
fluhzzz thumbnail
piss_pisstofferson
piss_pisstofferson thumbnail
k2k4
k2k4 thumbnail
babypark
babypark thumbnail
edkr
edkr thumbnail
morimotomomoe
morimotomomoe thumbnail
chifuyon
chifuyon thumbnail
clogs36
clogs36 thumbnail
hotreleases
hotreleases thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    PREORDER! JUNE 1st RELEASE! 150 gram vinyl, reverse board (matte) jacket,

    Includes unlimited streaming of Foom/Foam via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 450  58 remaining

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    20
    releases

    Get all 20 Weird Ear Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 45%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Mal Sed / Scy1e, Weird Ear's Fantastic Voyage (Autumn East Coast Tour), Metaphysiques Cannibales, Foom/Foam, Crust Immersed, On The Pedestrian Side, APOTHEOSIS PUTREFACTUM, Ida, and 12 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $38.50 USD or more (45% OFF)

     

1.
A1 03:12
buy track
2.
A2 02:00
buy track
3.
A3 02:16
buy track
4.
A4 03:39
buy track
5.
A5 06:40
buy track
6.
B1 01:14
7.
B2 03:54
buy track
8.
B3 05:15
buy track
9.
B4 08:24
buy track

about

Documentation of a rare summit meet by two of New England’s stranger musical figurines, recorded at the Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain, MA back in 2012. The piece was created as a sort of dub battle showdown, with FOOM’s turntables and Foam’s cassettes & doodads all plugged into a 4 track and lit the fuck up.

The jams here are languidly-paced, in comparison to a lot of contemporary assemblage, and the instant compositions unfold in way that puts one in mind of classic work by the L.A.F.M.S. Too often these days, music with some of the same experimental approach as is heard on FOOM & FOAM is either done at breakneck cartoony speed or stretched out endlessly. And while I like a good head-snapping or an excuse-to-nap as much as the next guy, I prefer it when artists doing abstract work allow you the space to ponder their plunder without making you wallow in it. With that in mind, this album unwraps itself like a precious gift for all to enjoy.

By using previously recorded sounds as source, the artists eradicate both the ability and the necessity of trying to identify the instruments or objects producing the noise here. These are just sounds, freed from their original sonic context by the initial act of recording, now existing as naught-but-signals, to be interpreted by our brains as they see fit to interpret them.

The F&F duo seem to understand this implicitly. And it allows them to manipulate the surface representations of previously-captured events in ways that recall Dennis Duck Goes Disco, Steve Fisk’s 448 Deathless Days and even Orchid Spangiafora’s Flee Past’s Ape Elf. These confusional classics are all of a piece with the work here.

Timeless beauty. All for less than the price of a good over-the-knuckle leather thimble. I’m not sure what you’re waiting for, but get over it.

-Byron Coley, 2018

credits

released June 1, 2018

Adam Foam - Tapes
C Foom - LPs

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Weird Ear Records image

Weird Ear Records Oakland, California

Vinyl, tape, and digital music label dedicated to wide open ears.

contact / help

Contact Weird Ear Records

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Weird Ear Records recommends:

If you like Foom/Foam, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now