September 19, 2025

Reports The Forty Five:

"Foote recounts the feeling of being drawn to indie-rock band The Antlers’ 2009 album Hospice, with stark white hands on the cover against a red background, and the Pink Floyd classic Dark Side Of The Moon. Her father introduced her to a wide range of artists, from Ani DiFranco and Sufjan Stevens to Michael Jackson and Talking Heads. Narrowing them down to find her feet in grunge rock didn’t come until she began studying music at Bennington College in Vermont, where she found herself singing for the first time with her band, Guppy, covering everyone from Carole King to Tegan & Sara. The genre shift came with a change in the direction of her subject matter.

'Before college, I had written folk music with my acoustic guitar, but I found the topics I was writing about were changing a lot. I then started going to local shows in Bennington and was inspired by the bands passing through; there was a lot of hooting and hollering and jumping up and down. It was music that gave me adrenaline. My friends in the music department introduced me to Cage The Elephant and The White Stripes as well. Music had never made me feel that way before.'"