Foot Village / Friendship Nation

Gilgongo

“As fad diets and food pyramids come and go, ‘you are what you eat’ still sounds like a pretty decent ground rule. After nearly three minutes of tribal percussion smackdowns, jungle growls, and cuckoo-house ululations, FOOT VILLAGE’s ‘Protective Nourishment’ lets us know what recipes the no-electricity Los Angeles drum freaks love most: ‘I like pee pee in my coke,’ the band's GRACE LEE yowls, to which a robot voice supplements, ‘I'm not afraid to eat my greens.’ Lee and another Foot Village member, BRIAN MILLER, are also bandmates in Load/Ecstatic Peace noise act GANG WIZARD, and Miller's huge role in the local underground scene includes helping run art-punk hangout the Smell, organizing music festivals called Neon Hates You, and putting out music on his own Deathbomb Arc label. Along with Load band FRIENDS FOREVER’s JOSH TAYLOR, Lee and Miller raise a controlled, communal racket on ‘Protective Nourishment,’ from forthcoming full-length Friendship Nation. ‘There lies the low-hanging fruit,’ Lee shouts later. That doesn't exactly describe Foot Village's music, but even if it turns out there's a snake involved, I'll bite.”—Pitchfork

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