A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with a podcast mic — that’s where Foolspring made “Flytrap,” and it sounds exactly like it should: close, ethereal, heavy with feeling.
Foolspring sit in what they call “the nocturnal corner of dreamy shoegaze” — the hazier, more intimate edges. Moody, close-up, slow-burning. The band — Gigi, Rachit, Sam, and Dan — wrote, recorded, and produced everything themselves. “Flytrap” is their debut single, out February 13th, and we’re premiering it today.
The song deals with losing yourself in a toxic relationship you know isn’t good for you, and the struggle to acknowledge the confidence to leave. “Vulnerable, entangled, isolated and broken down,” the band explains, “Flytrap reflects the damage and the self awareness after escaping something that almost consumed you.”
There’s a pleasant tension built into the songwriting. The verses sit in past tense — reflective, recollecting — while the choruses pull you back into the helplessness as it felt in the moment. That contrast between knowing and feeling runs through the whole track.
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Musically, “Flytrap” is built around a single circular chord progression. That’s not accidental. The band designed it to mirror the feeling of being trapped and tied to something you can’t escape from. The guitars are thick, dense, and textured, with a spiralling melody spinning through the chorus. Bass and drums reinforce the loop by introducing a foundational accented rhythm that anchors everything in place.
“Sonically, as elements expand through sections, the core remains the same,” the band says. “Mirroring the fact that as the relationship changed, there was a constant which weighed me down.”
The second verse gets specific about recognizing manipulative behaviour: “you’d tell me all i’d want to hear, sweet lies that dripped like honey, you took me off my life support, fed me dreams that led to nothing.”
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The song started from a couple of chords. Sam and Daniel workshopped the initial idea, and Gigi wrote a spoken word interlude over it — which over time took shape into “Flytrap” as it exists now. That kind of slow transformation fits a band that values letting songs breathe rather than rushing them into a finished state.
Being in their 30s and starting a new band brings its own set of realities. Life and responsibilities take priority. The DIY route felt natural — “the tracks we’ve written are so raw emotionally, we wanted to portray that creatively so we really delved into that aspect and to be true to ourselves but also have a relatable essence.”
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“Flytrap” was recorded mostly in Gigi’s living room with a podcast mic. “Though one day it’d be nice to see what we sound like in a studio,” they admit. But the self-produced approach has clear advantages: no studio clock ticking, no reliance on outside engineers. Songs can develop at their own pace. “DIY matters because it gives us the freedom to work independently on a cohesive project, to expand and solidify the vision we’re establishing collectively.”
“Flytrap” is streaming now — hit play and let it quiet the noise.
