Monday 4/19: Foxing—"Go Down Together"
Today, we share our thoughts on the latest single by the St. Louis indie-rock band Foxing.
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Today, we share our thoughts on the latest single by the St. Louis indie-rock band Foxing.
Foxing—"Go Down Together"
Eric Bennett:
Foxing has always been a band that just does not do much for me. This instinct makes sense to me, as I’ve never found them to be creating catchy music full of infectious hooks, but also because that doesn’t seem to have ever been their goal. I love a lot of bands that Foxing fans also love, but I’ve never been able to bridge that gap. Their new album rollout, long and cryptic, has mostly come across as exhausting to me, though I applaud its creativity, and am sure those who are already fans are enjoying it. While I have only heard the singles from this upcoming record, the first single “Speak With the Dead” reinforced a lot of my preconceptions, and despite featuring an artist I love and admire, Yoni Wolf, still didn’t help me warm up to them. This new single, “Go Down Together” is the first moment that I’ve seen something I can like in Foxing. It’s no fiery rock song, but it moves, has a nice melody, and doesn’t feel painfully stuffy. It’s clean and sounds vaguely like Passion Pit. If they go further in this direction, I might be finding myself going through a change of heart.
Eli Enis:
Foxing have always been a band that I should like but they’ve just never fully clicked with me. I saw them on the Nearer My God tour and they were objectively badass, and they've always made the type of ambitious, bigger-than-emo style of emo that appeals to me when TWIABP do it. I’ve just never been captivated the way my peers have been. The two singles from this rollout have been awesome. The first one with Yoni Wolf was as grand as it was stark, and this one is a pop song that, like Eric said, sounds like indie-pop from the early 2010s. It’s a direction that Citizen also went in on their newest album, so I wonder if we’ll see some sort of strange convergence of late-aughts college normie rock and straight-faced, artsy emo. Never could have predicted that pathway, but if “Go Down Together” is what it sounds like then my interest is piqued.