Foxwarren
Foxwarren
Release Date: Nov 30, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Record label: Anti-
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Album Review: Foxwarren by Foxwarren
Great, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Singer/songwriter Andy Shauf co-founded Foxwarren with three friends from college in the late 2000s, around the time he began releasing home-recorded solo material; the group stayed intact through hiatuses for his solo career over the next ten years. Following his second album, 2016's The Party, Foxwarren was finally able to complete its recording debut. Sharing a certain soft-footed, pastoral indie rock sensibility with their frontman's music, Foxwarren is very much a project for fans of Shauf's solo work.
Based on rating 8/10
The release of Foxwarren's debut record couldn't be sweeter for Andy Shauf, certainly one of Canada's top melody makers. The band, which features Shauf and childhood friends Dallas Bryson and brothers Avery and Darryl Kissick, had their start with these songs a decade ago in the Kissick family farmhouse in, you guessed it, a town called Foxwarren, MB. Despite the band's lengthy history of working together, Foxwarren is their first official release. Foxwarren cite Paul Simon and the Band as influences, which is certainly evident ….
Based on rating 7.3/10
For Canadian singer/songwriter Andy Shauf, solo success meant putting band life on a brief hold. Whether narrating the macabre end to an unfaithful relationship or house-party antics gone horribly wrong, Shauf has diligently refined his storytelling during the last decade on a series of albums under his own name. All the while, he's also performed alongside hometown pals Dallas Bryson and brothers Darryl and Avery Kissick as Foxwarren.
Opinion: Excellent
Rating: NNNN Andy Shauf's 2016 album The Party - a wallflower indie pop concept album about the depressing aspects of drinking and socializing - brought his approach and sound to the mainstream, making fans eager for his next offering. For Toronto-via-Saskatchewan's multi-instrumentalist baroque pop prince, it comes in the form of a self-titled debut from his hometown band, Foxwarren. Actually, this is technically Foxwarren's sophomore album, but Shauf has been rather secretive about the group's past work.
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