Foley Room

The album was recorded in part at the Foley effects room at Ubisoft Montreal.[http://www.popmatters.com/column/127316-amon-tobin-a-cool-acousmatic-cat/ Amon Tobin Part 2: A Cool Acousmatic Cat] In the past, Tobin had created music through the sampling of old vinyl records. However, Foley Room is a marked departure from his traditional technique. Inspired by the Foley rooms where sound effects are recorded for films, Tobin decided to record and work with original samples for the record. According to the Ninja Tune website, "Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass."[http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=1217 Ninjatune Releases – Bloodstone EP]

Tobin also assembled a cast of diverse musicians to improvise music that was recorded as still more sampled material for the record, including Kronos Quartet, Patrick Watson, To Rococo Rot's Stefan Schneider, and harpist Sarah Pagé.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40314/Amon_Tobin_Meets_Kronos_Quartet_in_Foley_Room_ |title=Amon Tobin Meets Kronos Quartet in Foley Room {{!}} Pitchfork |access-date=2007-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111012630/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40314/Amon_Tobin_Meets_Kronos_Quartet_in_Foley_Room_ |archive-date=2007-01-11 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=Classic album - Amon Tobin on Foley Room |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/classic-album-amon-tobin-on-foley-room-i-hadnt-told-john-i-was-turning-up-with-a-bowl-of-wasps-he-wasnt-happy-at-all |date=11 February 2021 |website=MusicRadar |access-date=13 June 2025}}

{{cquote|There's nothing new about field recordings of course. It's obviously been the traditional source material in sampling since the early days, so I'm really going "back to school" on this one. On the other hand, I always saw a divide between music that was based purely on sound design and tunes that were written to physically move people. A challenge for me has been to try and make 'tunes' using aspects of sound design normally associated with highbrow academic studies in this area. I don't know how successful I've been but that was a goal anyway.|20px|20px|Amon Tobin|in his MySpace blog.}}

Among the many analog tape field recordings captured by Tobin for the album include the sounds of wild animals, "roaring motorcycles, grinding chains, the crisp clashing of automated machinery, the delicate tiptoeing of ants, dripping water and clacking train tracks."

The first single, "Bloodstone", was released digitally on January 9, 2007. The song was later released as a physical CD single on January 21 with the album track "Esther's" and unreleased track "Here Comes the Moon Man" also included on the disc. In promotion of the record, Ninja Tune released two YouTube "trailers".{{YouTube|MvodRa9Md1Q|Amon Tobin - Forthcoming album (trailer#1)}}{{YouTube|IlwG3DSESyE|Amon Tobin - Foley Room (trailer#2)}} A DVD documentary detailing the album's recording process was also released with the album.

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| title2 = Esther's

| length2 = {{Duration|m=3|s=21}}

| title3 = Keep Your Distance

| length3 = {{Duration|m=4|s=48}}

| title4 = The Killer's Vanilla

| length4 = {{Duration|m=4|s=14}}

| title5 = Kitchen Sink

| length5 = {{Duration|m=4|s=49}}

| title6 = Horsefish

| length6 = {{Duration|m=5|s=07}}

| title7 = Foley Room

| length7 = {{Duration|m=3|s=37}}

| title8 = Big Furry Head

| length8 = {{Duration|m=3|s=22}}

| title9 = Ever Falling

| length9 = {{Duration|m=3|s=49}}

| title10 = Always

| length10 = {{Duration|m=3|s=39}}

| title11 = Straight Psyche

| length11 = {{Duration|m=6|s=49}}

| title12 = At the End of the Day

| length12 = {{Duration|m=3|s=18}}

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