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Leftandleaving · May 27, 2021

Maddy said:

Am I the only one who hears a little bit of The Killers influence in the verses

It was the very first thing I thought, and then I thought it again when Connor came in. I can see what @Carrow means about this being a weird choice for a single, although imo speak with the dead was a weird choice too, and they didn’t pick the obvious singles from nmg either imo (besides the title track). I still dig this quite a bit tho. And I also need this full album yesterday

jordalsh · May 27, 2021

what a sick song. big guitars! big hook!

wisdomfordebris · May 27, 2021

jordalsh · May 27, 2021

the beginning riff has a bit of a western vibe

Sean Murphy · May 27, 2021

yeah this is a Killers song and i fucking love it

Your Milkshake · May 27, 2021

Smage · May 27, 2021

Does anyone know the passcode to their merch site that's currently up?

ItsAndrew · May 27, 2021

They still haven't announced the album yet (10 minutes I'm guessing?) so the merch store will probably be unlocked then.

VanMastaIteHab · May 27, 2021

“Goodness Pt. 2” via passion pit could not possibly be more my shit

Osceola13 · May 27, 2021

Can't wait to hear the album version of Beacons after watching the videos of it being performed live way too many times.

Smage · May 27, 2021

Foxing Announce New Album Draw Down The Moon, Share Latest Single

Elder Lightning · May 27, 2021

Verses on this are way more U2 than Killers.

Carrow · May 27, 2021

Band preorders are live!

Foxing Merchandise

ghostxvapor · May 27, 2021

Still asking me for a password
EDIT: Finally works

Your Milkshake · May 27, 2021

so the album art is crusader larp?

slowheart · May 27, 2021

Copped the board game last week. I’m so fucking geeked on getting that in the mail

ItsAndrew · May 27, 2021

Are they going to post about the album announcement on social media?

Carrow · May 27, 2021

ItsAndrew said:

Are they going to post about the album announcement on social media?

I'd say it's imminent!

Tomar Re · May 27, 2021

Love that guitar solo with the vocals behind it

jordalsh · May 27, 2021

ordered the red splatter

Carrow · May 27, 2021

Plenty of album context in the press release I got with the record.

Foxing has garnered a reputation as a band that goes big with their albums. With each release, the St. Louis-based group has appeared downright determined to top the expansiveness of their previous works. But with three sprawling and well-received records now under their belt, the band has seemingly left themselves little ground to uncover. So, on their new album, Draw Down the Moon, they set their sights on the largest subject possible: The universe.

“It’s about the idea of your cosmic significance,” explains frontman Conor Murphy. “The way you feel like a tiny speck in the grand scheme of the universe, that’s a feeling everybody has. You can get lost thinking about how small you are. But [Draw Down the Moon] subverts that a bit to explore how your connection to people and places and ideas is what binds you to the universe and reality.”

To tackle this literally limitless topic on Draw Down the Moon, a joint release between Hopeless Records and the band’s own Grand Paradise, Murphy took a song-by-song approach. With each of the album’s ten lush tracks, he expanded upon a different worldly theme, as viewed through the greater lens of the cosmic fabric to which we’re all bound. Age, financial ruin, sexuality, commitment, success, homes, luck, vulnerability, trust, and death are all mined for insights that together paint a galactic picture. “With each of them, the intention is to recognize that you are one small speck of the universe, but also that you’re surrounded by these other small specks, and your connectivity to them is what gives you purpose and meaning.”

On “737,” the album’s ethereal opener, Murphy delves deep into the universal experience of aging, or “your number on the linear timeline of your finite life,” as he puts it. It’s a fitting topic for a band that fans have watched grow and evolve drastically over the last decade. While Foxing often got labeled as a post-everything band with their 2013 debut, The Albatross, they’ve since matured into an eclectic identity that critics had a hard time pinning down on their most recent work, 2018’s widely acclaimed Nearer My God. “Generally, I think everyone grows with us,” Murphy says. “We have such a dedicated fanbase that they’re aging with us and following us as our taste changes. I was 18 when we were writing The Albatross, straight out of high school. My priorities were very different than they are ten years later, as I’m 27 going on 28. Out of high school, you feel it’s important to write about relationships and unrequited love and studying abroad. Then, as you grow, your perspective changes. Now, I’m at the point where I’m consistently having existential crises. But I think people have scaled with us.”

“It feels like a natural evolution of what we initially set out to do,” adds guitarist Eric Hudson. “We always tried to be very ambitious, musically, but the music is always the backdrop for what’s being said lyrically.”

After the crescendoing “737,” Murphy explores themes of debt on the danceable “Go Down Together” and success on the entrancing “Where the Lightning Strikes Twice.” On the album’s titular track, he waxes about the significance of romantic commitment, even in the face of the vast universe, with lines like “I will always be your home / I wanna show you I can keep it all together.” Draw Down the Moon ultimately culminates with an assist from avant garde artist WHY? on the cathartic closer, “Speak with the Dead,” on which the band tackles the big one: death.

To help them pin down this overly ambitious project, Foxing brought in some additional help. After working for more than a year on their tracks at their studio in St. Louis, with Hudson at the helm as producer, the band took them to Georgia, where they holed up for a couple weeks with members of Manchester Orchestra. Combining the efforts of two bands who are each known for composing overly grandiose works might have been a recipe for disaster, but the collaborative process widened the scope of an already bold project. “It sounds chaotic but it was actually really good,” Murphy says. “They completely changed some of the songs and it was not what we were planning to do. It reworked a lot of the structures, and monumentally changed my feelings on those songs.”

Draw Down the Moon wields an other worldly power that at times feels spiritual, and its creation took as much inspiration from religion as it did from magic and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. The album title itself is derived from Margot Adler’s ritual book, Drawing Down the Moon. “I’ve been in a place in my life for a long time of deep resentment for religion, specifically Catholicism,” Murphy says, “but I felt like on this one we explored that idea of magic and ritual on a deeper level than just fiction. I value that so much now.”

While Draw Down the Moon’s celestial nature often leads it to sound like a record as large as the galaxy itself, it is, at its heart, about all of us on the ground level—the tiny specks floating around together. “There are no life lessons in the record,” says Murphy. “It’s just saying: It’s OK to feel like this. We are all insignificant, but everyone around us is so insignificant, and together, we actually make up all of reality in the universe.”

ItsAndrew · May 27, 2021

radiodead · May 27, 2021

I’m totally bummed. I haven’t really cared much for any of the singles, hoping that they will all grow on me. I’m trying!

I Am Mick · May 27, 2021

had a feeling that Speak With The Dead was the closer, absolutely love that song but the other singles aren't doing it for me.

dotKev · May 27, 2021

Lightning is incredible. Just wow.

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