Two Feet

New York City resident Bill Dess channels yearning, breathy vocals through the atmospheric solo endeavor Two Feet, weaving them into dense bass lines, guitar figures, and shadowy electronic textures. Attention arrived in 2016 once the track “Go Fuck Yourself” spread rapidly online, opening doors to the EPs Momentum in 2017 and A 20 Something Fuck in 2018. Two Feet’s opening pair of albums, Pink and Max Marco Is Dead Right?, surfaced one after the other in 2020 and 2021. A more exploratory electro-soul approach defined 2022’s Shape & Form.

Zachary William Dess entered the world in 1993 and spent his childhood in Manhattan, where an elementary-school outing to The Nutcracker first sparked his interest in music. While in middle school he began writing original chamber pieces for the school orchestra, later exploring a wide range of influences that stretched from Chicago blues to hip-hop and trap. He started studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston yet left before finishing in order to concentrate on recording. After an intensive stretch of work inside his apartment, he unveiled the single “Go Fuck Yourself,” posting it under the Two Feet name; the song quickly amassed more than eight million streams and entered the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart at number 48.

Shortly thereafter Two Feet joined Republic Records and issued the debut EP First Steps. Momentum appeared next in 2017, accompanied by a lengthy tour. The third EP, A 20 Something Fuck, followed in 2018 and featured the singles “Hurt People” (featuring Madison Love) and “I Feel Like I’m Drowning,” the latter reaching number one on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. In the year that followed, he served as opening act for Panic! At the Disco.

Two Feet’s first full-length album, Pink, reached stores in 2020 and contained the song “Maria.” Adopting the persona Max Marco, he returned in 2021 with Max Marco Is Dead Right?. Shape & Form arrived the next year as his fourth album, further stretching his electro-soul palette through excursions into shoegaze, house music, and experimental textures; the set included the single “Tell Me the Truth.”