Canadian quintet, Foxwarren, recently passed through the Bay Area to play The Independent in SF and Maltodextrin was there to catch up with the band before they hit the stage. Tune in on Saturday, December 27th at 4pm to hear their conversation.
Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – recently released their new album, 2, via ANTI-. 2 is a fun and surprising record, where boundaries between genre and song are constantly blurred. Built on 20 years of friendship, Foxwarren ostensibly plays folk music, where warm tones and cantering rhythms buoy songs of characters wrestling with existential quandaries inside of twilit vocals.
It was neither a fast nor an easy process, but 2 became an uncanny revelation for Foxwarren; they warped and pushed the florid folk-rock of their past until it evolved into a song cycle about the vagaries of love, where voices sampled from the past commingled with songs that sparkled with the power of their collective imagination in the present. A trove of found-sound conversations between two lovers were weaved into the songs. Borrowing from a bit of dialogue, lead single “Listen2me” features a guitar riff and bounding rhythm cut in to repeat themselves, spinning around again and again while Shauf relays a loud-mouthed lover’s quarrel. The song’s video was directed and created by filmmaker and artist Winston Hacking.
