Foxwarren

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Canadian quintet Foxwarren is Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis. Their new album, 2, is out May 30th via ANTI-. 2 is a fun and surprising record, where boundaries between genre and song are constantly blurred. Built on 20 years of friendship, Foxwarren ostensibly plays folk music, where warm tones and cantering rhythms buoy songs of characters wrestling with existential quandaries inside of twilit vocals. But after touring their lauded, Juno Award-nominated, 2018 self-titled debut, Foxwarren decided to do it all differently, eventually dropping the familiar band-in-a-room routine to instead plug those songs, and various other sounds into a sampler to create 2. In their own home studios across four provinces, all five members would upload song ideas, melodic phrases, or rhythmic bits to a shared folder. In Toronto, Shauf would then plug these into a sampler and construct songs from the fragments supplied by his bandmates, leaning into classic hip-hop techniques and musique concrète alike as unlikely lodestars. Foxwarren would convene at weekly online meetings, offering long distance suggestions about which way a song might shift.

The result is mesmerizing and uncanny, an album that traces two sides of a relationship through 37 minutes of collage art.
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08
Yvonne
Foxwarren
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02:12
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
09
Deadhead
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03:32
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
04
Listen2me
Foxwarren
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02:43
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
08
Sunset Canyon
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Foxwarren
04:20
01
Dance
Foxwarren
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02:37
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
01
To Be
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Foxwarren
02:54
13
Wings
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04:06
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
12
Dress
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03:13
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
14
Serious
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02:40
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
04
In Another Life
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Foxwarren
02:59
06
Strange
Foxwarren
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03:15
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
10
True
Foxwarren
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00:35
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
03
Say It
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04:02
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
11
Round&round
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02:13
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
02
Sleeping
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02:25
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
15
Again&
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01:29
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
02
Lost In A Dream
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02:55
03
Everything Apart
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Foxwarren
04:16
05
I'll Be Alright
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Foxwarren
02:33
09
Fall Into a Dream
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Foxwarren
04:56
10
Give It a Chance
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Foxwarren
03:45
07
Your Small Town
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Foxwarren
02:48

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â„— 2025 Foxwarren, under exclusive license to Anti
30-05-2025
2
01
Dance
Foxwarren
2
02:37
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
02
Sleeping
Foxwarren
2
02:25
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
03
Say It
Foxwarren
2
04:02
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
04
Listen2me
Foxwarren
2
02:43
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
05
QuiteAlot2
Foxwarren
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00:28
Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
06
Strange
Foxwarren
2
03:15
Writer: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis / Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
07
Havana
Foxwarren
2
00:58
Composers: Andy Shauf - Dallas Bryson - Avery Kissick - Darryl Kissick - Colin Nealis
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Foxwarren, under exclusive license to Anti
30-11-2018
Foxwarren
01
To Be
Foxwarren
Foxwarren
02:54
02
Lost In A Dream
Foxwarren
Foxwarren
02:55
03
Everything Apart
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Foxwarren
04:16
04
In Another Life
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Foxwarren
02:59
05
I'll Be Alright
Foxwarren
Foxwarren
02:33
06
Lost on You
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Foxwarren
04:20
07
Your Small Town
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Foxwarren
02:48
Access the complete album info (10 songs)