A 20 Something Fuck Two Feet

• 1 Intro 01:12
• 2 You Say 02:39
• 3 I Feel Like I'm Drowning 03:08
• 4 Felt Like Playing Guitar And Not Singing 03:09
• 5 Hurt People 03:14
• 6 Not A Radio Song 01:33
• 7 Back Of My Mind 03:07
• 8 Same Old Song (S.O.S. Part 1) 02:30
• Total Runtime 20:32

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Mit Zachary William Dess, der unter dem Pseudonym Two Feet seine Musik veröffentlicht, ist einer der weltweit meistgestreamten neuen Künstler. Der junge Twenty-Something aus New York, der zuvor in verschiedenen Jazz- und Blues-Formationen seinen Stil entwickelte, veröffentlichte seinen ersten eigenen Song Ende 2016. Seither steigt sein Stern in der Onlinewelt in rasendem Tempo. Grund dafür ist, dass er eine feine Balance findet zwischen einem traditionell gefärbten Singer-/Songwriter-Sound und einem postmodernen Gefühl für ergänzende Notebook-Klänge. In den USA zählt Two Feet derzeit zu den meistbeachteten neuen Acts, allein auf Spotify wurden seine Songs bislang mehr als 175 Millionen Mal angehört. Am 18. Mai kann man Two Feet, der live von einem Freund an Drums und Keyboards begleitet wird, in Berlin erleben.

Zachary William Dess wusste früh, dass nur die Musik der passende Berufsweg für ihn sein kann. Zunächst verdingte er sich als Gitarrist und Sänger bei Formationen zwischen Jazz, Blues und Pop, um sich und sein Songwriting auszuprobieren. Ende 2016 wagte er dann den Schritt in die Onlinewelt als Solokünstler unter dem Pseudonym Two Feet. Gleich der erste Song „Go Fuck Yourself“ geriet zu einem viralen Hit, sammelte innerhalb weniger Wochen viele Millionen Klicks und steht aktuell bei knapp 86 Millionen Plays auf Spotify und über 18 Millionen SoundCloud-Streams. Schon dieser Song bewies, dass Two Feet seinen ganz eigenen Klang zwischen dunklem Blues und drückenden Hip-Hop-Beats gefunden hat. Als 2017 rund um diesen Song seine erste EP „First Steps“ erschien, sprach man bereits in den ganzen USA von diesem neuen Künstler. Entsprechend stieg „Go Fuck Yourself“ bis auf Platz 36 der Billboard-Rock-Charts. Die nächste Single „I Feel Like I'm Drowning“ schaffte es sogar bis auf Platz 21 dieser Hitliste – und alles ohne einen physischen Release.

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He was putting the final touches on a song he had written earlier that day - unapologetically titled “Go Fuck Yourself”, the track was written in a three hour blur and he hadn’t given too much thought too until he had sent it to a handful of friends who said differently. Switching the track to public on soundcloud, Two Feet closed his laptop and let the liquor take him to sleep. By the time he woke up in the morning, “Go Fuck Yourself” had garnered thousands of streams and his inbox was ringing with messages from new fans and prospective labels.

7 months on and Two Feet aka Bill something is reflecting on his debut EP - the appropriately titled, “First Steps.” Independently released, the EP is a collection of 4 songs born out of frustration and a knee-jerk reaction to other projects he had been working. “I kind of just put it up because I was fed up with the other music I was making for other people” Bill says. “I was really not expecting anything to come from it. And to watch it just sort of blow up and see how people have responded to it has been incredible.”

Since it debuted in May on independent label, Majestic Casual Records, the First Steps EP has crept it’s way onto major tastemaker playlists on Spotify, garnering millions of streams across the platform as well as Soundcloud, where it was first discovered. Two Feet has caught the attention of the blogosphere, with “Go Fuck Yourself” sitting at the top of the HypeMachine charts on multiple occasions, with praise from the likes of Indie Shuffle and others tastemakers, with the likes of Louis The Child playing the track in their DJ sets.

For the most part, Two Feet’s hazy and mellow sound is a nod to contemporary artists like Chet Faker, with a low-key beat that is as subtle as it is unshakeable, but at the core of the EP lies Harlem influences. Tracks like “Quick Musical Doodles and Sex” bleed with an unabashed blues heart, with flitters of guitar provocatively stacked against an unrelenting electronic backbone. It’s perhaps in this instant where Two Feet’s jazz influences come into play and realising that less can be more, as he nonchalantly and infrequently sings, “do you remember my love?”, while the guitar riffs over a soft beat.

“I had been producing a lot of electronic music, so that was at the front of my mind, but I was listening to loads and loads of blues music, and I always had been - I learnt how to play blues guitar,” Bill explains. “So when I sat down to make my own music, all the influences were just sort of there…. and combined,” he notes. With additional hints of indie, r&B and jazz, Bill is still getting used to seeing people respond to his music.

“The other day someone sent me a snap of Miguel, and he was listening to one of my tracks in the background. That was wild.”

Two Feet’s debut, “First Steps,” are just that, but since uploading that first track, he’s certainly leapt of his friends couch and hit the ground running.

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