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

WATCH / SHARE “YVONNE” HERE
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TOUR DATES BEGIN THIS AUGUST - TICKETS ON SALE APR 25 HERE

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

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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
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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

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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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FOXWARREN ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, SHARE LEAD SINGLE “LISTEN2ME”

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

WATCH / SHARE “LISTEN2ME” HERE
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PRE-ORDER & PRE-SAVE 2 HERE

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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
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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.

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

 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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ANDY SHAUF’S FOXWARREN REVEALS NEW VIDEO FOR “LOST ON YOU”

HOMETOWN SHOW IN REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN TONIGHT – FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES CONTINUE THROUGH SUMMER

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SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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“[Shauf is] a phenomenal storyteller and I love his sense of melody and his voice.”
– Robin Hilton, NPR Music

“Silky rock-pop … a Mac Demarco-like swing to the riffs and chords.” – Northern Transmissions

“Foxwarren’s 10 tracks range in tone from brooding Elliott Smith-like ballads to Paul McCartney ditties … Shauf’s friends help him investigate his darkest emotional corners.” – Pitchfork

“This album shines a light on what is brilliant about Andy - which is his words and that unique voice of his, which I am definitely attracted to.” – Bob Boilen, NPR Music

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Subtle and thoughtful, Foxwarren – the four person band comprised of Toronto solo artist Andy Shauf and his hometown friends, who released their self-titled debut album last year – draws parallels to Shauf’s solo work while leaning on collaboration and looseness rather than Shauf’s meticulous arrangements. The new music video for Foxwarren’s “Lost on You” also makes a strong case for following your gut instincts. Canadian filmmakers Mark Klassen and Hope Little were about to depart on a road trip across Nevada's Death Valley to the Pacific Coast of California and at the last minute decided to bring their lighting design equipment with them, to experiment with along the trip’s route. Along the way they stopped when the conditions were just right to film and from this footage the “Lost on You” video was born.

WATCH AND SHARE “LOST ON YOU” HERE

The juxtaposition between technology and the desolate desert, combined with dreamlike colors on the LED tubes strategically placed to showcase the shadows and textures of the natural landscapes lead to the perfect backdrop for “Lost on You”, an eerie and lonely song. Where Shauf leaves space for orchestration in his solo music, Foxwarren take time to ruminate on passages and themes. Propped up by warm driving rhythms and a familiar voice, and coloured with soft electronics and coarse guitars, their record ultimately hinges on sincerity. It captures the feeling of friends pushing each other, of a band looking inward for inspiration instead of outward for influence. 

This group of siblings and childhood friends originally formed more than a decade ago. Growing up in scattered small towns across the Canadian prairies, Andy Shauf (guitars/keys/vocals), Dallas Bryson (guitar/vocals), and brothers Darryl Kissick (bass) and Avery Kissick (drums & percussion) eventually found themselves in Regina, Saskatchewan. The initial sessions for their self-titled debut began in the Kissicks’ parents’ farmhouse while they were away on vacation. Upon their return, Foxwarren were forced to relocate and recording resumed back in Regina in a rented house where the members lived as roommates. The band's name comes from the Kissick brothers’ family home in Foxwarren, Manitoba.

WATCH AND SHARE “SUNSET CANYON” HERE

Foxwarren initially bonded over Pedro the Lion and drew influence from The Band and Paul Simon. Now a decade in to the project, Shauf reflects on their debut release: “So much time and effort went into making this album; it's something I think we're all really proud of … Making the album was such an enjoyable time - the collaboration and frustration of it all. All of us trying to make something better than we previously had. We've been a band for 10 years or so and never properly released an album, so this is special for the four of us.”

This week, Foxwarren embarked on their first-ever tour and will perform extensively this summer in Europe, Canada and the U.S., including appearances at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival in late June and the Greenman Festival in the UK. All upcoming dates are listed below.

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TOUR DATES
May 29 - Regina, SK // The Exchange
May 30 - Saskatoon, SK // Broadway Theatre*
May 31 - Edmonton, AB // The Starlite Room*
Jun 1 - Calgary, AB // Commonwealth Bar & Stage*
Jun 4 - Vancouver, BC // Biltmore Cabaret*
Jun 5 - Seattle, WA // Crocodile Room*
Jun 6 - Portland, OR // Doug Fir Lounge*
Jun 8 - Sonoma, CA // Huichica Festival
Jun 9 - San Francisco, CA // The Chapel*
Jun 11 - Los Angeles, CA // Teragram Ballroom*
Jun 16 - Augoulème, FR // La Nef
Jun 17 - Ghent, BE // Dok
Jun 18 - Utrecht, NL // TivoliVredenburg
Jun 19 - Lille, FR // Aeronef
Jun 20 - Paris, FR // La Maroquinerie
Jun 21 - Amiens, FR // Minuit Avant La Nuit
Jun 24 - Baltimore, MD // Metro Gallery*
Jun 25 - Philadelphia, PA // Johnny Brenda's*
Jun 26 - New York, NY // Bowery Ballroom*
Jun 27 - Boston, MA // Great Scott*
Jun 28 - Portsmouth, NH // 3S Artspace*
Jun 29 - North Adams, MA // Solid Sound Festival
Jul 2 - Detroit, MI // El Club*
Jul 3 - Spring Green, WI // Shitty Barn*
Jul 4 - Maquoketa, IA // Codfish Hollow*
Jul 5 - Minneapolis, MN // 7th Street Entry*
Jul 6 - Chicago, IL // Empty Bottle*
Jul 7 - Chicago, IL // West Fest
Jul 10 - Montreal, QC // La Sala Rossa*
Jul 11 - Toronto, ON // Lee's Palace*
Jul 12 - Toronto, ON // Lee's Palace*
Jul 14 - Guelph, ON // Hillside Festival
Jul 25 - Salt Lake City, UT // Gallivan Center
Jul 27 - Squamish, BC // Constellation Festival
Aug 14 - Luxembourg, LU - Rotondes
Aug 16 - St. Malo, FR // La Route Du Rock
Aug 18 - Brecon Beacons, UK // Greenman Festival
Aug 21 - Hamburg, DE // Molotow
Aug 22 - Erfurt, DE // Franz Mehlhose
Aug 23 - Munich, DE // Hauskonzerte Series
Aug 24 - Storkow, DE // Alínæ Lumr
* w/ Hannah Cohen

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