Can you feel the tingling, the tingling my dear?
Hush now.
The Footlight District are here with a new single that will no doubt take part in future Hallowe’en playlists.
On June 10, the Chicago-based band released their newest single “Hush” and it is hauntingly addicting.
Picture yourself in a meadow seeped in smog, the twilight casting a dark atmosphere with no light to be seen beyond the moon glow. A chill runs through you, as you look left and right, fretting for safety and scared to the bone. Stuck in a sinister, blood-curling situation, it seems a dead-end, and no one is there to deliver you from it. And so you fight it no longer, and instead seep further into the darkness. And that’s when you hear it, a soft piano progression, a tingling guitar riff, and a chorus of voices calling on you:
Can you hear the whispers, the whispers my dear?
The Footlight District is a self-proclaimed garage band, a five-piece made up of family members who grew up with a mutual love for music and performing.
Throughout the years starting their official debut in 2017, The Footlight District mostly released songs with no featuring artists and worked as a tight knit family unit for the most part. This new song, however, is different on a multitude of levels.
For starters, it features Russel Marsden, guitarist and vocalist from the UK-based band, Band of Skulls.
“[Working with Russell] was really cool,” the band comments. “It was kind of a different perspective. And because obviously, since we’ve written together (as a family) for a while, we all kind of have like a certain way of doing it, but it was kind of neat to have a different influence. We’d be talking with Russel and be like “Okay, here, take this, what we’ve done. What do you hear?” And then we would have all our instruments and then we would just kind of like, “oh, why don’t you try this when you try that when you drop this or add this in?”
The one downside to the entire endeavour was that the recording couldn’t be done in person, and was mostly done over Zoom calls.
“Like we basically wrote the song over zoom,” TFD explains, “and then recorded stuff here (in Chicago) and sent it over to him. So we did some vocal stuff here, and then he did some more instrument stuff in his studio, and he just kind of “Frankensteined” it together. That’s the best way to describe it.”
However, the sound flows so perfectly, one can’t tell the recordings were done on different sides of the world. Both vocals and melodies mesh well to create an intense spooky atmosphere worthy of a The Witcher soundtrack.
Hush now, child
Blow away your tears
Hush now, child
There’s nothing to fear
With lyrics notably eerie, the melody goes from calm and mysterious with the soft ballad feel of an acoustic guitar, to urgent and ghostly with stronger drum beats and an intense guitar solo — a build-up reminiscent of old-school rock’n’roll songs.
Make sure to stream “Hush” on all platforms and follow the band for updates such as shows, and new music.
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