DRAW DOWN THE MOON, the 2021 indie rock album serving lindsey buckingham realness, by foxing

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anthems for the microdosed at dusk // hybrid jewels of indie-rock and/or dance-pop, album sees no significant difference between the two // guitar lines and vocal melodies erupt from the mix as electric antlers would from a skull // depressive psychic maelstroms of songs about the impermanence howling around everyone you love // album of the year

lmao i thought i wrote 2021 in the title

... and now i have

given the fact that they dropped 5 singles for this, i'm hoping this album is 20 tracks long

If you listen to this and the new Lingua Ignota then you do indeed get twenty tracks!

Have put NMG on to prepare. What a sly grower it's truly proven to be

"cold blooded" is my favorite song and not just because there's an entire verse about listening to enya

weird album, nowhere near as immediate as nearer my god, but that was obviously going to be the case from the singles

found it way more immediate than nearer my god, it’s just nonstop hooks

not that it's not weird, it's just nearer my god shifted between a lot of sounds over 50 minutes. this is a very focused 39

opening track goes absolutely *wild*, hope it stays like this

yeah this is all hooks, time will tell if I prefer it, hard to beat NMG's rangy ambition but it's pretty damn good

Bialystok is a particularly stunning production job. There's hardly a song there but it somehow kills

every song is a hit

"beacons" one of the best coming out songs i've ever heard, obv a lot of competition there

Liking this new one a lot. I'm so curious as to where they take this project and they always seem to deliver. I agree, this feels like a really focused version of what they were doing with NMG. An emo band that has morphed into a stadium pop band but the quality hasn't dipped. Impressive stuff.

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there's interesting stuff going on here but the melodies largely just aren't delivering for me

this album also kinda reminds me of the con

Huge grower yet again (for me at least)

This band shows the value of having very, very fine attention to detail in arrangements and sonics

There are, apparently, thoughts today.

thought is an illusion

if it's attracting this much attention maybe a negative review is better for them than anything i could've done lol

Start trashing your favorite bands, then they'll feel the love

That p4k review is very very funny to me. I can't name a single song by any of the bands they accuse DDtM of not being better than (I remember some of my friends liking Passion Pit circa 2008, but I had less than zero interest in that style of music at the time). Just a classic case of being unable to glimpse the actual tunes through the forest of stylistic comparisons.

I will try to receive it in the generous spirit of "Here are some older records to check out if you like the new Foxing album" rather than the cranky ennui-ridden spirit of having-nothing-nice-to-say it was likely written in (:

i don't really like this record but it's a weird review. i can hear the passion pit comparison (especially since it's an admitted influence) but it's only vague, one of many ingredients in the mix. the uk indie comparisons on the other-hand seem pretty off-base? comparing it to the wombats is really insulting, one of the very worst landfill indie bands who were bafflingly prominent especially here, & two door cinema club were always very lightweight indie pop, not the sort of anthemic indie music that foxing are referencing? if this album had sounded more like foals i probably would like it more, they never quite delivered on their potential over a full album so i'd love someone to make something that sounded like them except better. all i really hear though is some similar rhythmic guitar parts but those aren't exactly something foals invented.

i just wish the melodies did anything for me at all

shame no one likes this record. “beacons” made me cry today

and every successive song on the record also makes me cry

hey I like it!

It's high summer, Foxing season, will relisten soon

beacons is amazing and i would like to make a hip typography print of the lyrics to the chorus and give it to my partner as an important gift because i think it would be well received so this is on my list of things i gotta do