Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow (Mar. 7, 2025) Album

[PRE-ORDER] Foxes In The Snow

 

@shea good luck explaining this to your wife

 

shea is done for

 

he obviously sounds great, song just isn’t very interesting musically

 

Won’t be doing that

 

wow keeping secrets

 

She’s got the same access to the internet I do

 

shea's wife is gonna run into the room later tonight breaking the news to him that jason isbell IS putting out a new album after all and shea's gonna act all excited like he just learned this for the first time





makes me sick

 

i don’t think shea should lie to their partner i would like to go on the record saying that

 

Song is nice. Going to definitely be an adjustment going from Weathervanes, which leaned on the band more than any of his other albums, to a totally acoustic singer-songwriter record. Still really looking forward to this, though.

 

i’m hoping it’s still a “solo record” like how southeastern and SMTF are and we still get some tracks like super 8 and 24 frames

if it’s all solo stuff just jason and an acoustic guitar i would predict this will be my least favorite of his records

 

From the description in the OP, sounds like it's entirely acoustic. I hope that would at least mean he's playing around with some different approaches to songwriting.

 

ah, didn’t see that blurb. explains why it’s coming out so quickly i guess

 

I’m glad they put out that blurb so I can adjust my expectations accordingly. This is just a bonus to me at this point since I wasn’t expecting a record from him til like late 2026 at earliest

 

As long as his lyrics are strong then I’m totally fine with an acoustic release. A lot of my favorite Isbell songs are his slower stripped down songs.

 

i'm gonna ruin the bit and let everyone know that i told her last night immediately upon seeing the post in the other thread. she was disappointed but understood.

 

now i’m disappointed too

 

Grabbed the Rough Trade exclusive! Was not expecting an album so soon, and am kind of excited to see what he does with a stripped down record

 

Shoulda re-recorded Alabama Sky and thrown that on here imo, that’s a great song that is this style

 

Song is nice, didn’t blow me away or anything but it’s on par with some of his pleasant mostly-acoustic songs from recent albums. And it shows that he’s a really really good guitar player, so I think it’s fair to have higher expectations for an Isbell acoustic record than any old songwriter dropping an acoustic record.

Also not to veer into gossipy territory but worth noting that the album cover comes from his new girlfriend’s art exhibition “The Guitar Man”. Which I’m not gonna spend too much time thinking about, but it does have me hoping this isn’t a predominantly divorce-focused album, because if it is then that choice strikes me as a bit cruel.

 

unsurprisingly love the song, and a guitar-and-vocals album from him sounds right up my alley, so i’m on board.

 

I will be very, very surprised if this album touches much on the divorce at all, outside of some general themes of change and loss.

 

well that much we know already

 

murph i thought we had a truce

 

Like the song a lot. I'm just going to assume he wrote the line "see the windmills turn up 55" on the way to or from one of the shows he's played in central Illinois.