Foxing - Foxing (September 13, 2024) • Page 32

I like this a lot better than DDtM. the vocals have always been the iffiest element of the band for me so I am happy with the increased screaming.

 

Tried this on my way to work yesterday. Not the right vibes. Maybe a fire and some fall beer tonight.

 

Didn’t even think of this but I totally get the comparison

 

parts of it remind me of no dev like Past and Future Ruins

 

Also definitely get the ACBTLD comparison via Into The Blinding Light

 

Prepared to do alcohol on my deck all afternoon while listening to this. Hope my neighbors like chaos.

 

the Thursday comparisons are extremely apt

 

Will be doing the same. Me, a case of high life, and Foxing. Cheers lmao

 

Barking has a bass line that sounds exactly like Tame Impala. Whole song kinda leans in that direction

 

Great minds and all that

 

Dead internet is the one for me rn

 

This album is insane

 

i have listened to this thing about 15 times since i woke up yesterday. it’s my favorite foxing album by far. secret history, looks like nothing, gratitude, and hall of frozen heads are absolute top tier foxing for me. i think this darker/screamo style really suits them.

 

i looove hall of frozen heads

 

hall of frozen heads is an all timer

 

Yeah some of the clean guitar tones on that one are so good but it’s also just a great song too haha

 

Hell yeah!

 

Now there are Mew comparisons being thrown around - Glass Handed Kites broke my brain when I first heard it, holy fucking yes please.

 

Mew 4evr

 

Hall of Frozen Heads is my favourite The National song

 

The more I listen, the more it feels like the perfect follow up to DDTM. As an artistic thrust and comment on the current human experience for so many of us, it's just hitting man. It's nasty and leans into the darkness

 

Looks like nothing is the one starting to sink its hooks into me now. Gonna be one of those albums where one or two songs grab me at a time until eventually I love the whole thing. Canonically those are usually my favorite albums

 

Especially effective production truck at the end of looks like nothing where they push the mix into the red so hard it sounds like my speakers are ripping open, but then they take the signal and it sounds like it’s reversed and turned into this synth pad as it fades into the outro. really disarming come down

 

I gotta sit down with the lyrics at some point. My one complaint, and this just comes with the style really, is that Conor is harder to understand than usual. Probably why stuff like Greyhound and Hall of Frozen Heads is standing out to me the most, it’s where he’s singing clearest.

 

this is gonna be one of those albums I recommend for anyone even remotely interested in the art of music production especially in the context of guitar driven music. Eric has such a deft touch behind the boards and you can tell he’s got the tinkering mindset where a song is never done and he’d do 200+ passes on a mix if time allowed. at times the mixes come across as imperfect but that winds up serving the songs and overall sonic direction of the album so it’s not a criticism so much as an observation because it sounds great, it sounds endlessly labored over but not to the point of being a bad thing if that makes sense. anyone who’s done production work knows what I’m talking about. like the album was produced by someone who cares about every single audio wave coming through the speakers and how it comes across in context