“Moving up to Portland has given me the chance to connect and play with a lot of different musicians.” Katy Ohsiek of Foamboys
Foamboy are a Portland-based duo comprised of producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek. They met in Salem, OR and worked together for a number of years in the experimental musical collective Chromatic Colors. In this group, Wil and Katy collaborated with a wide variety of instrumentalists, released 2 full-length albums, and graced the stages of many outdoor festivals, bars, and basements. In the events of 2020, Wil and Katy took this time to take on a new project, and Foamboy came to be.
Foamboy’s debut album, My Sober Daydream, is a neat package of jazz-inspired danceable pop with a hyper-personal lyrical edge. Listeners will enjoy influences of disco and funk styles while being reminded of artists like The Internet, Men I Trust, and Thundercat. The lyrics wrangle with topics of identity, relationships, gender dynamics, and late-stage capitalism; the delivery of these lyrics akin to a conversation over the phone with your best friend. Katy’s melodies twist and float over Wil’s rich, synth-centric soundscapes.
Below are the lyrics for LOGOUT. It’s actually two songs / videos seamlessly merged into one. Kind of how Wil and Katy work together.
ALIEN:
I feel like an alien
In my black clothes and my white hair made at home
In a town that doesn’t know me.
I could be a friend of yours
In my dark hole and a good head full of jokes
You’d be lucky to know me.
Or so I tell myself
To the mirror sometimes,
Pulling my skin off about it.
Illusion of scarcity
I’ve been holding on to this whole time.
“Nobody here really likes me”
I feel like an alien
In my black clothes and my white hair made at home.
Nobody here really likes me
I could be a friend of yours
In my dark hole and a good head full of jokes
Nobody here really likes me
LOGOUT:
I’d like to log out
And be sitting just stuck in my room just stuck, in my room, just
You’ll beat me out
Foam in my mouth, just sitting, just stuck, just sitting, just
I’d like to log out
And be sitting just stuck in my room just stuck, in my room, just
You’ll beat me out
Foam in my mouth, just sitting, just stuck, just sitting, just
I’d like to log out
And be sitting just stuck in my room just stuck, in my room, just
Band Members:
Wil Bakula: producer
Katy Ohsiek: vocals
Justin Yu Kiatvoncharoen: drums
