Brown Shoe is made up of four brothers—Aaron, Bryson, Ryan and Landon Baggaley—and Chandler Clemons who might as well be a brother. Their music has been described as an “imaginatively dense soundscape…alongside steady awe-inspiring rhythms and uplifting melodies.” Their previous three albums (The Wheat Patch, Vanity, Jackalope) received broad radio play, charted on CMJ, and garnered numerous TV placements. Their sound has drawn comparisons to Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, The Red House Painters, R.E.M., and The National. In recent years Brown Shoe has crisscrossed North America a number of times, playing festivals, clubs, and colleges, winning over a diverse fan base across the country.

After three back-to-back national tours in support of Jackalope, Brown Shoe decided it was time to get back in the studio and begin recording the manically expansive and treacherous tale, “The Gift Horse” (unreleased, 2011). Getting back to work with Joe Johnston at Pus Caverns near their hometown of Folsom, CA, they began recording in March 2010 and finished up a full year later. As Bryson (bass, drums) put it, “The record only took 863 cocktails, a few trips to the hospital, one girls patience and a year of this or that.”

Brown Shoe will be out on the road supporting “The Gift Horse” in fall of 2011.

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