Tuesday 27 May 2014

Foxing


Foxing are a five-piece band that formed in 2011 from Saint Louis, Missouri. What's their genre? It's somewhere between a blend of emo/indie/post-rock/math rock/electronic music, as if that narrows anything down. Alright, think of a band influenced by the likes of Explosions In The Sky, This Town Needs Guns, Listener, The Antlers, Tera Melos, Maps & Atlases, Death Cab For Cutie, Brand New, and A Silver Mt. Zion (and their 1000 names). Now imagine that said band came from the same music scene that spawned The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate), Crash of Rhinos, and Prawn. And what do you have? Foxing.

This band utilizes a range of instruments in addition to the basic guitar, bass, drums setup. A trumpet is prominently used, as well as various string arrangements, and electronic tinkering, among others. Their guitars are very clean, often laden with delay and reverb. The drums focus more on forming rhythms than keeping basic beats. The vocals are varied, often ranging from spoken word parts to cracking shouts and sputters of intense emotion ("Why don't you love me back?"). The lyrical relatability and poeticism is painstaking, to say the least. The band crafts songs featuring endless crescendos, cathartic climaxes, and eventual breaking points, the formula of post-rock, but structure their songs to remain unpredictable and adventurous, which sets them apart from the predictably that plagues the genre. The Albatross in particular is an amazing piece of work that I highly, highly recommend everybody check out in its entirety. It has got to be one of the most solid albums put out in this realm of music in years, in my opinion.

Foxing released their debut full-length on Count Your Lucky Stars, and were quite quickly signed to Triple Crown Records, for good reason. Below is the aforementioned full-length and their earlier material. Be sure to support the band, and they are a must-see live band if you have the chance. Enjoy.

1. Friendly Homes
2. Sunspotting
3. Gold Cobra

1. Foxing - Ocelot
2. Send Away Stranger - Still Figures 
3. Send Away Stranger - You Look Like a Basketball Pro

1. Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You
2. Foxing - Tom Bley

1. Bloodhound
2. Inuit
3. The Medic
4. Pent up in a Blind
5. Rory
6. Bit By a Dead Bee pt. I
7. Bit By a Dead Bee pt. II
8. Den Mother
9. Calm Before
10. Quietus

1. Weave
2. The Magdalene
3. Night Channels
4. Laundered
5. Indica
6. Winding Cloth
7. Redwoods
8. Glass Coughs
9. Eiffel
10. Coda
11. Three On A Match

1. Indica Two
2. Redwoods Two

1. Grand Paradise
2. Slapstick
3. Lich Prince
4. Gameshark
5. Nearer My God
6. Five Cups
7. Heartbeats
8. Trapped In Dillard's
9. Bastardizer
10. Crown Candy
11. Won't Drown
12. Lambert

1. 737
2. Go Down Together
3. Beacons
4. Draw Down The Moon
5. Where The Lightning Strikes Twice
6. Bialystok
7. At Least We Found The Floor
8. Cold Blooded
9. If I Believed In Love
10. Speak With The Dead (feat. Why?)

1. Carly Cosgrove - Bloodhound
2. Insignificant Other - Inuit
3. Sweet Pill - The Medic
4. Prince Daddy & The Hyena - Rory
5. Home Is Where - Bit By A Dead Bee, Pt. I
6. Hey, ILY! - Bit By A Dead Bee, Pt. II
7. For Your Health - Den Mother
8. Colleen Dow - Quietus
9. The Medic (2023)
10. Rory (2023)

18 comments:

  1. Awesome band, great upload. Thanks! Is this Albatross the CYLS version or the remix/remaster from Triple Crown?

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  2. I don't think you can understand how much I love this blog. I was literally (like less than a minute ago) on 4shared to download some music, typed in "Foxing," got disappointed, then remembered that I haven't checked this site in a couple of weeks. What's the first fucking thing I see? Foxing. Never ever ever stop doin' you.

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  3. request: FIDLAR xx

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  4. I dig it! May I request Liam the Younger?

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  5. request: Foxy Shazam

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  6. request: fairweather

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  7. Can I throw out a request for Two Humans? They're fantastic!

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  8. Fuck yeah! Two Humans are the shit

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  9. Wow, Dealer is already up on here! I'm going to see them live with The World Is... and two other bands in Grand Rapids in early November. I'm so stoked to see Foxing, it will be my first time seeing them live. Thanks for the upload!

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  10. the upload of Dealer on this page is a 128kbps transcode. please replace it when a better quality copy becomes available.

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  11. Fuck this band, my 9 inch dick has more talent then their ugly faces

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    1. EmoGrandmother1 March 2016 at 15:41

      Hey man these guys are super talented and super creative. If you don't like them then don't listen. But there's no reason to leave rude comments

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  12. If anyone is interested, I have the second Audiotree session and I am willing to upload it to zippy.

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    1. Can you send the link please

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    2. OH MY GOD PLEASE
      I NEED THIS ALBUM >A<

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  13. Thank you so much for sharing their amazing art. I've just found them and the energy of their music is just perfect.

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  14. nearer my god is out! please upload thanks

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  15. Could you please re-upload The Albatross? Zippyshare links are dead.

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