Foamboy are a Portland-based pop duo comprised of producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek. Wil and Katy worked together for many years in other projects before creating their debut pop album, My Sober Daydream, in 2020 and releasing it in 2021. My Sober Daydream has launched this duo into a new stage of their careers, earning recognition from indie greats including KCRW, Consequence of Sound, and Week in Pop. Foamboy has graced some of Portland’s favorite stages, including Mississippi Studios, Holocene, and Doug Fir Lounge. Listeners can expect jazz-inspired danceable pop with a hyper-personal lyrical edge.
Foamboy will be releasing their sophomore record “Eating Me Alive” in early March of 2024. While the new project still has that dreamy and dance-y nature to it, it paints a much darker sonic landscape, as Katy’s lyrics lament the rise and fall of a complicated and crushing relationship. The themes of the album also describe reckoning with the aftermath of your public art, discovering your own queer identity, rejecting heteronormative narratives, surviving grad school, and giving up in a good way. The album contains a diverse offering of songs: the longer disco tracks the group is known for, short dreamy interludes, wavy electronic ballads, and distorted psych-inspired pop tunes. It is very much a reflection of the group working with a full seven-piece band for the last year, and contains a concoction of both electronic and live instruments. While the song aesthetics are varied, Wil took care in crafting the album as one unit, weaving the songs in and out of each-other. The group is beyond excited to be putting this project out into the world very soon, and are equally pumped to tour the west coast following the release. “Eating Me Alive” will be out on all streaming platforms on March 8th.
Management - Daniel Gill - daniel@forcefieldpr.com
HIGHLIGHTS
‘Not A Go’ included in top 5 new releases on KCRW, and top 15 new releases in Flood Magazine
Charted twice on KCRW Radio (Los Angeles NPR), Charted #1 on WBGU Radio (Ohio)
Included in ‘Favorite Music Videos of 2021’ on Consequence of Sound’s social media
Featured by Week in Pop, AudioFemme, Spill Magazine, Aupium, Vents Magazine, Tinnitist, Imperfect Fifth, Indie Midlands, 48 Hills, and Ones To Watch
Opened for Haiku Hands, The Papercuts and The Umbrellas, Private Island, and Say She She
Festivals: SXSW 2023, Belltown Bloom 2023
PRESS
“Funky, precise, and layered with icy-cool summertime vibes, this disco-hued track is your jam for extended daylight fun. Foamboy are the Portland duo keeping their dance-pop offerings tight and well-defined. With “Not A Go,” producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek display the kind of creative wavelength alignment that leads to effortless success” - KCRW
“Foamboy channels the collection of voices that sing, whisper and shout out from within and arranges those often brutal self-examinations into a modern electro orchestration that seeks to assuage and edify the very core of ourselves, everything that we are, everything we want to be and everything that we potentially can be (even while coping within the confines of an imperfect and traumatizing existence)” - Week In Pop
“My Sober Daydream is full of songs that have the potential to enhance your cultural cred at a dinner party without scaring off your guests. It is progressive without pretension, avant garde with honesty” - I Am Tuned Up
“Producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek team up to create an unexpected fusion that fits like bubblegum to your shoe. Danceable compositions that can well be pigeonholed with funk melodies and synth pop sequences, but with a very dynamic jazzy twist, almost experimental in their parameters” - Indie Rocks (Mexico)
“Warm, saturated, and bright, but not harsh, Foamboy’s energy is ultimately as comforting as a soak in a bubble bath – the perfect soundtrack for a soul-healing, unplugged moment” - AudioFemme
