(Cover art by Christine Lambert)
These songs may never have seen the light of day. Marie Finch, which started primarily as the solo recording project of Minneapolis' Joe Villano, had no immediate plans to release the material they had been sitting on for a while (all of it was initially written in 2018). They had been recording as a trio with Jack Daily of Fox Theory, piece-by-piece, since the fall of 2019. Both Marie Finch and Fox Theory were gradually working on new EPs but ended up hitting creative walls this summer. The EPs were tabled for the time being, until Daily had the idea of a split. Rather than leave the Marie Finch songs behind, it made natural sense for the two bands to team up.
Not to be selfish, but I sure am glad all these songs made it out alive. Fox Theory has been honing their emo-punk stylings into some of the catchiest and best composed stuff I've heard with that sound. Meanwhile, Marie Finch's songs operate somewhere between "classic" indie rock and the Happy Children; a lot of care was put into ensuring that everything flows perfectly into an anthemic end result.
We're super thrilled to be offering these seven songs a day early! Listen to the full Face Plant split below. You can find our full interview with Jack and Joe here.
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