Weight Of The Truth [Green Smoke Vinyl LP]

Footballhead - Weight Of The Truth [Green Smoke Vinyl LP]

It would be easy to pigeonhole Footballhead's unapologetically buttrock-inspired record Weight of The Truth as simple nostalgia bait, but what sets Footballhead's capital-R Rock sound apart from contemporaries is a desire and an ability to thread the needle between paying homage to a quasi-idyllic past and pursuing an earnest future. Footballhead wears their 2000s-era influences openly, with power chord drives and pummeling choruses.

Underlying it all is a grit and substance derived from years spent in the Chicago DIY scene, exposing themselves to different styles and influences equally out of necessity as out of interest. With an ear to the past but an eye to the present, Footballhead invites you to remember what it meant to give a shit back when the world felt simpler — and what it might feel like to do so again.