Footings

As a shapeshifting troupe of musicians spanning the Northeast, Footings is led by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Eric Gagne alongside multi-instrumentalist Elisabeth Fuchsia. Gagne, previously touring with bands Death to Tyrants, Redwing Blackbird, and recording as a solo artist under the moniker Passerine, started the group as a collaborative extension of his personal works. Footings’ current iteration features fellow guitarist Candace Clement (Bunny’s a Swine), bassist Jordan Holtz (Rick Rude), and Mia Govoni (Gilliver) playing drums. Across their discography, Footings’ workflow resembles a finely orchestrated musical bricolage; Gagne writes, records, and sends drafts to Fuchsia and other members of the group who then add instrumentation, refine demos, and pass their progress back and forth until a sense of finality is reached. Though the groups’ physical locations change over the years, which requires adjustments to their creative process, the results of Footings’ methodology consistently bears compositions that are strikingly profound and endearing. The band’s previous records have been championed as portraits of “enveloping melancholy” (Dusted Magazine), specifically pinpointing Gagne’s wry lyricism as a punctuation in Footings’ swirling song structures.