St. Louis emo stalwarts Foxing have introduced that they’re occurring hiatus. “[It] has change into clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making probably the most sincere and real artwork we will, our relationship with music, one another, and our sense of self with out the band has eroded,” the band wrote in an announcement posted to social media.
Foxing will play two farewell exhibits—one in Chicago and one in St. Louis—in December. See these dates and discover the group’s full message under.
Foxing was shaped in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2011, by bassist Josh Coll, drummer Jon Hellwig, and guitarist Matthew Piva. The band went by a number of lineup modifications earlier than the 2013 launch of debut album The Albatross. By then, Foxing had settled right into a five-piece of Coll, Hellwig, vocalist Conor Murphy, and guitarists Ricky Sampson and Eric Hudson. Foxing spent the subsequent couple of years on the street, touchdown opening slots for fellow emo favorites like the Hotelier and Modern Baseball.
Coll left Foxing between the discharge of 2015’s Dealer and 2018’s Nearer My God. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, Nearer My God marked the band’s leap to anthemic, festival-sized indie-rock. In his assessment of Nearer My God, Ian Cohen wrote that it “gives the incapacitating rush of watching a damaged play develop right into a Hail Mary, a half-court buzzer beater, a double steal that really works—the joys of its success amplified by palpable danger and an alternate, disastrous consequence that was narrowly prevented.”
After Nearer My God, Foxing launched Draw Down the Moon, in 2021, and a 2024 self-titled album.
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Foxing:
After 14 years as a band and 12 years of constant touring, we’ve determined to take a hiatus from enjoying exhibits, writing or doing something as Foxing.
It feels actually scary to say that. This band has been utterly inseparable from us as folks for our whole grownup lives up up to now. It’s so a lot of our id and our sense of self price on this planet. But it surely has change into clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making probably the most sincere and real artwork we will, our relationship with music, one another, and our sense of self with out the band has eroded. We’ve determined to prioritize this stuff and have to step away from the band to take action.
These exhibits in Chicago and St. Louis will likely be our final for the foreseeable future. Know that for those who ever noticed us at a present or listened to our data, you had been getting probably the most from us that we might probably give in that second. We’ll come again if/after we really feel that now we have extra to provide.
