Hailing from the midwestern college town of Columbia, Missouri, The Foundry Field Recordings have been perfecting their shoe gaze, indie-pop craft since 2002. FFR started out as a platform for songwriter Billy Schuh, who played with a revolving cast of characters, known simply as The Foundry.
Up until college Billy had never picked up a guitar or sung before, and his musings on the Cold War, lost love, robots, and isolation were reserved only for his private notebooks. Percussionist Benjamin Hook of the band Firefly Alliance became the first permanent member of the group in 2003, with original Kingdom Flying Club members, Becky Baxter and Daniel Stegall following soon after. Later that year the group released their self-recorded debut, "Fathers As Robots" EP, and started touring in 2004 - while also opening for the likes of Super Furry Animals, Dressy Bessy and Spoon.
It became obvious that the group was evolving into a true collaboration between all members, when in 2005 they took on a new name, The Foundry Field Recordings. The band celebrated it with the release of the Battle Brigades 7” as well as another tour, which lead to the recording of the “Live at Schubas” digital album for emusic. Then, three full years of painstakingly collecting binaural recordings, conducting visceral field experiments, and many late nights in the studio, finally brought to fruition the amazing concept album, "prompts/miscues" in 2006.
Since the release of "prompts/miscues" FFR have been featured on WOXY.COM, KEXP, XMU, Daytrotter, and showcases put on by The Tripwire and Brooklyn Vegan. In 2007 they released a limited edition EP “Fallout Stations,” an extension of “prompts/miscues.”
The Foundry Field Recordings eagerly anticipated full-length follow-up is due out Spring 2009.