FOXWARREN RELEASE NEW SINGLE / VIDEO, “DEADHEAD”, FROM UPCOMING LP

May 27, 2025

FOXWARREN’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, 2, OUT MAY 30 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “DEADHEAD” HERE
BUY / STREAM “DEADHEAD” HERE

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF IN AUGUST

Photo Credit: Little Jack Films // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – release the new single/video “Deadhead,” the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via Arts & Crafts. Following “Yvonne,” praised by AV Club as “an understated kind of gorgeous,” “Deadhead” sees Foxwarren on a quest for levity. The song seamlessly moves from an MF Doom-like pitch-shifted sample to a line-dance guitar lick to honeyed country-rock harmonies of the titular band all in three minutes. There are darting flutes, mangled electronics, and meticulous snippets of rhythm, all expertly placed to illustrate the song’s emotional tumult. ‘I won’t stop dancing,’ as Shauf sings, is exactly the feeling the song evokes.

The song’s eccentric video was directed by Joe Cappa, who explains: “I bought a bunch of wigs and medieval costumes and sort of came up with the premise of the video as I was dressing the puppets. When I put the blonde wig and mustache on the main character it really spoke to me. Those legs on the flute playing baby are my 10 month old son’s.”

“To all the deadheads, we say 'don't stop dancing.'” — Foxwarren

“Deadhead” exemplifies the unique approach Foxwarren took in creating 2. After touring their lauded 2018 self-titled debut, the band dropped the familiar band-in-a-room routine. Instead, 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 that aspires to “sound best blasting out your car window,” as put by Shauf.

WATCH / SHARE “DEADHEAD” HERE
BUY / STREAM “DEADHEAD” HERE

By himself, Shauf has already had a stellar career, his reputation built by the sweet melodies and uniquely imaginative and precise storytelling found on 2016’s The Party through to 2023’s Norm. Foxwarren, especially here, is a crucial part of that ongoing process, but 2 represents something even more significant—five friends now nearing the end of their second decade making music together, pushing against what they’ve learned how to do in order to venture somewhere new. It is the sound of friends who trust each other, cutting themselves loose from their past and their preconceptions to have some fun with a sampler and the very idea of songs.

Last month, the band announced an expansive North American tour, their first since 2019. A full list of shows is below and tickets are on sale now. Additionally, Foxwarren 2 Listening Parties are taking place beginning today through May 30th at record stores around North America and Europe. For cities, record stores and further information, visit foxwarren.hq.

WATCH / SHARE “LISTEN2ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LISTEN2ME” HERE

WATCH / SHARE “YVONNE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “YVONNE” HERE

FOXWARREN TOUR DATES:
Wed. Aug. 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center #
Fri. Aug. 8 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Pavilion #
Sat. Aug. 9 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square #
Sun. Aug. 10 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo #
Sat. Sept. 13 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount
Tue. Sept. 16 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
Wed. Sept. 17 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Fri. Sept. 19 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Sat. Sept. 20 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Mon. Sept. 22 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Tue. Sept. 23 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
Wed. Sept. 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Thu. Sept. 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Fri. Sept. 26 - Kingston, NY @ Assembly
Sun. Sept. 28 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Wed. Nov. 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
Fri. Nov. 28 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange
Sat. Nov. 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre
Sun. Nov. 30 - Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall
Mon. Dec. 1 - Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre
Thu. Dec. 4 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Fri. Dec. 5 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Tue. Dec. 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Thu. Dec. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

# supporting Waxahatchee

PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

2 TRACKLIST
1. Dance
2. Sleeping
3. Say It
4. Listen2me
5. QuiteAlot2
6. Strange
7. Havana
8. Yvonne
9. Deadhead
10. True
11. Round&round
12. Dress
13. Wings
14. Serious
15. Again&

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FOXWARREN ANNOUNCE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN SIX YEARS, RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO

April 22, 2025

WATCH / SHARE “YVONNE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “YVONNE” HERE

TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS AUGUST - TICKETS ON SALE APR 25 HERE

FOXWARREN’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, 2, OUT MAY 30 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

Photo Credit: Little Jack Films // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – announce a North American Tour and release “Yvonne”, the second single/video from their new album, 2, out May 30th via Arts & Crafts. The band’s expansive tour, their first since 2019, will go on sale on Friday, April 25th at 10am local time. A full list of shows is below, with tickets and further information available here.

Following lead single “Listen2me”, “Yvonne” is a compulsory study of love’s strange spell. Shauf sets the beach-like scene above a polyrhythmic sampled loop, and then when his vocal harmonies hit the string section singing, “I don’t know what I’d do without you, Yvonne,” it’s like watching the sun rise in someone else’s eyes.  “Yvonne, the woman scanning the beach each morning for buried treasure, deserves a love song too,” the band says. A collage-style animated video by artist Meghan Fenske accompanies “Yvonne”, nodding to the cut-and-paste elements of 2.

WATCH / SHARE “YVONNE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “YVONNE” HERE

Over the last decade, Shauf has become known as “a phenomenal storyteller” (NPR Music). He’s built a reputation for his “natural ear for all of the vintage sounds that give his music an ‘out of time’ quality” (Uproxx) and his “gorgeously produced collection of short folk-fiction” (Variety). He is always using some fresh fascination, skill, or concept as the catalyst for albums he writes, plays, and produces almost entirely by himself. But before Shauf’s solo acclaim, he was a member of Foxwarren. Following Shauf’s 2016 album, The Party, Foxwarren’s self-titled debut album arrived in 2018, almost an entire decade after the formation of the band, garnering solid reviews, packed live shows, and a JUNO Award nomination. It became some of Shauf’s most celebrated music, immediately overcoming any suggestion whatsoever that this was just a side project.

Riding a crest of enthusiasm, Foxwarren headed into the studio in fall of 2018, hoping to cut a half-dozen songs for a follow-up rather quickly. Given a little distance, though, the songs felt flat. So Foxwarren opted to try something entirely new: 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. It was a long and difficult process, but 2 became an uncanny revelation for Foxwarren; they warped and pushed the florid folk-rock of their past until it evolved into a mesmerizing song cycle about the vagaries of love.

WATCH / SHARE “LISTEN2ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LISTEN2ME” HERE

By himself, Shauf has already had a stellar career, his reputation built not only by the sweetness of his melodies and sharpness of his words but also his inability to rest with past success. Foxwarren, especially here, is a crucial part of that ongoing process, but 2 represents something even more significant—five friends now nearing the end of their second decade making music together, pushing against what they’ve learned how to do in order to venture somewhere new.

PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

TOUR DATES
Wed. Aug. 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center #
Fri. Aug. 8 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Pavilion #
Sat. Aug. 9 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square #
Sun. Aug. 10 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo #
Sat. Sept. 13 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount
Tue. Sept. 16 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
Wed. Sept. 17 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Fri. Sept. 19 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Sat. Sept. 20 - Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room
Mon. Sept. 22 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Tue. Sept. 23 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
Wed. Sept. 24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Thu. Sept. 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Fri. Sept. 26 - Kingston, NY @ Assembly
Sun. Sept. 28 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Wed. Nov. 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
Fri. Nov. 28 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange
Sat. Nov. 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre
Sun. Nov. 30 - Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall
Mon. Dec. 1 - Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre
Thu. Dec. 4 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Fri. Dec. 5 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Tue. Dec. 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Thu. Dec. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether

# supporting Waxahatchee

2 TRACKLIST
1. Dance
2. Sleeping
3. Say It
4. Listen2me
5. QuiteAlot2
6. Strange
7. Havana
8. Yvonne
9. Deadhead
10. True
11. Round&round
12. Dress
13. Wings
14. Serious
15. Again&

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FOXWARREN ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE LEAD SINGLE “LISTEN2ME”

March 25, 2025

FOXWARREN’S SOPHOMORE ALBUM, 2, OUT MAY 30 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

WATCH / SHARE “LISTEN2ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LISTEN2ME” HERE

PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

Photo Credit : Little Jack Films // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Canadian quintet Foxwarren – Andy Shauf, Avery Kissick and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis – announce their new album, 2, out May 30th via Arts & Crafts, and release the lead single/video “Listen2me.” 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. The result is mesmerizing and uncanny, an album that traces two sides of a relationship through 37 minutes of collage art.

During the last decade, Shauf has become known as a uniquely imaginative and precise storyteller – a perpetually restless songwriter and musician, always using some fresh fascination, skill, or concept as the catalyst for albums he would write, play, and produce almost entirely by himself. These ever-evolving interests are evident from 2016’s The Party through to 2023’s Norm. But before Shauf’s solo acclaim, he was a member of Foxwarren, which initially consisted of Shauf, the fraternal rhythm section of Avery and Darryl Kissick, and guitarist Bryson. Their self-titled debut album arrived in 2018, almost an entire decade after the formation of the band, garnering solid reviews, packed live shows and some of Shauf’s most celebrated music, immediately overcoming any suggestion whatsoever that this was just a side project. Multi-instrumental ace Colin Nealis – a member of Shauf’s touring band – officially joined Foxwarren after their summer touring in 2019.

In creating 2, the band opted to try something entirely new: 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.

It was neither a fast nor an easy process, but 2 became an uncanny revelation for Foxwarren; they warped and pushed the florid folk-rock of their past until it evolved into a song cycle about the vagaries of love, where voices sampled from the past commingled with songs that sparkled with the power of their collective imagination in the present. A trove of found-sound conversations between two lovers were weaved into the songs. Borrowing from a bit of dialogue, lead single “Listen2me” features a guitar riff and bounding rhythm cut in to repeat themselves, spinning around again and again while Shauf relays a loud-mouthed lover’s quarrel. The song’s video was directed and created by filmmaker and artist Winston Hacking.

WATCH / SHARE “LISTEN2ME” HERE
BUY / STREAM “LISTEN2ME” HERE

There is something uncanny about the feeling of these songs— the way bits recorded in different home studios amplify your attention, looping and interlocking. But the true connective tissue is the generous and gentle way Foxwarren’s 2 moves with melody.

PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

FOXWARREN TOUR DATES
Wed. Aug. 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Gallivan Center #
Fri. Aug. 8 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Pavilion #
Sat. Aug. 9 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square #
Sun. Aug. 10 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo #
# supporting Waxahatchee

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2 TRACKLIST
1. Dance
2. Sleeping
3. Say It
4. Listen2me
5. QuiteAlot2
6. Strange
7. Havana
8. Yvonne
9. Deadhead
10. True
11. Round&round
12. Dress
13. Wings
14. Serious
15. Again&

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