THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Beneath the audible progress of Foxing’s 13-year career — from the chamber-emo of debut The Albatross to the art-pop of 2021’s Draw Down The Moon — has been a gradual movement towards self-sufficiency.
Appropriately, the quartet of vocalist Conor Murphy, guitarist Eric Hudson, drummer Jon Hellwig, and bassist Brett Torrence (who recently joined after years as a touring hired gun) chose to self-title their fifth LP. The album was produced by the band and mixed by Hudson. The cover art was created by Murphy and Torrence, and it is being released on the band’s own Grand Paradise label.
It is fitting that tension is at the core of Foxing — an album that balances hopefulness and nihilism — the pastoral with the tumultuous. Whether oscillating between visceral noise-rock and intimate bedroom cassette experiments on opener Secret History or cruising at the edge of collapse on Barking, the dramatic dynamics that have long permeated Foxing’s music have never felt so extreme. Five albums into a discography defined by its own restlessness, Foxing is a document of a band finding comfort in their chaos.”
