With their new single “Bleached Yellow,” Foot Ox paints a sonic portrait of painful uncertainty, visualized through the eerie haze of a Southwestern landscape. It’s a captivating preview of the Portland-based psych-folk project’s upcoming studio album, A Lighthouse with Silver Dog Eyes, due out on August 11 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Teague Cullen, the DIY-scene stalwart at the helm of Foot Ox, says he crafted the song to echo “that feeling of Arizona, where everything’s sun-bleached and washed out. It reflects that emotional burnout you feel sometimes, but there’s also that part where, even when you’re trying to pull away from someone or keep your distance, they just kind of draw you back in, and you end up caring about them anyway, trying these different configurations—so I guess it’s kind of about my own chaos.”
“Bleached Yellow” is the second pre-release cut shared from A Lighthouse with Silver Dog Eyes, following the lead single, “Horseshoe,” which dropped earlier this month. The record, produced and mixed by David J at Balboa Recording Studio in Los Angeles, promises listeners a layered, expansive soundscape shaped by creative contributions from musicians Sean Bonnette, Preston Bryant, Grant Berber, Andrew Dorsett, Lee Johnson, Miriam Hacksaw, and Jim Rhian.
You can pre-order a limited-edition Coke bottle clear vinyl pressing of A Lighthouse with Silver Dog Eyes, which includes a digital download of the album available on release day, now while supplies last, via Bandcamp.
Listen to “Bleached Yellow” below:
Foot Ox, A Lighthouse with Silver Dog Eyes Track List:
- “Owl Cries”
- “Bleached Yellow”
- “Cowhand”
- “Untitled”
- “Bed of Violets”
- “Earmarks”
- “Way Up High”
- “Go With”
- “Witness and Tide”
- “Horseshoe”
- “Arizona”
- “Desert Rat”
Foot Ox’s 2025 Tour Dates:
July 30 – San Luis Obispo, Calif. @ Humdinger Brewing
Aug. 30 – Seattle, Wash. @ Bumbershoot Festival
