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.

Old Songs (2012)

1. Friendly Homes

2. Sunspotting

3. Gold Cobra

Foxing/Send Away Stranger (2013)

1. Foxing - Ocelot

2. Send Away Stranger - Still Figures 

3. Send Away Stranger - You Look Like a Basketball Pro

Japenese Breakfast/Foxing (2013)

1. Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You

2. Foxing - Tom Bley

The Albatross (2013)

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

Dealer (2015)

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

Two (2017)

1. Indica Two

2. Redwoods Two

Nearer My God (2018)

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

Draw Down The Moon (2021)

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?)

The Albatross: Ten Years (2023)

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)

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