It’s not too often we cite a quote in one of our headlines, but we just love the way Call Me Spinster sum up new single “Feet Are Dirty.” The glistening electro-pop track arrived last week (January 25), and acts as one of the sentimental chapters in the Chattanooga sister trio’s debut album, Potholes, a record that arrives April 12 via Strolling Bones Records and explores themes of relationships and motherhood as our lives progress.
The radiant and star-gazing “Feet Are Dirty” leans into domestic life, viewed through the lens of a person who looks back to compare it to the more carefree days of youth, perhaps spent at dance parties soundtracked by Robyn and the songs that once moved us very differently.
“The bulk of the songs on this album come from the very early phases of marriage and motherhood,” says Call Me Spinster’s Amelia Graber Jacobs. “One of the themes is the disorienting feeling of stumbling into the new, all-consuming identity of a domestic person. So much tiredness, so many endless piles of mundane tasks and minutiae and time standing still, but also technicolored joy. Feeling at once incredibly stuck and incredibly love-struck.
Graber Jacobs adds: “‘Feet Are Dirty,’ like several other songs on the album, is both a celebration of this moment, a mom-pop ode to Robyn and the ’90s dance music we love, and a fantasy of escape to a more familiar version of ourselves.”
Get lost in the memory of youth below, well aware that it’s protected and cradled in a calm sense of the happiness of right now.