Foxing - Nearer My God (August 10, 2018) Album • Page 74

I love this record so much and it feels so good. I never connected with Dealer, but I think The Albatross is a scene classic with some of the best tracks written by any of these new wave emo bands. But this thing is a whole new level for them. It’s wildly ambitious like few records I can think of to have emerged from this scene in the last 5 years. These songs are so groovy and their lyrics are at an all time high.

I’m so eager to see what they’ll be playing on the tour! My date is on Friday and it’s one of the shows I’ve been most excited for this year. Really hoping for Lich Prince and Heartbeats. I’ve been looking at their Euro tour set lists and they’re solid, but I would love for them to break out Bloodhound and Inuit. Tom Bley would be wild but I doubt they’ll play that ever again.

 

Wish I could make it to the show in Orlando, but I’ll be in Orlando two weekends in a row the two weekends after the Foxing show.

Driving back and forth each weekend too. Living 3 hours from Orlando, every minute of driving is going to suck.

 

My 180g black is waiting for me at my parents house...2 weeks until I'll get it

 

Here’s my review Foxing - Nearer My God • chorus.fm

 

Somehow restrained myself to only 1000 words

 

Is one of those weekends Thrice? I’m still debating whether or not I should make the Orlando trip for them too, considering I’m seeing Foxing three weeks earlier and going to Halloween horror nights the weekend before Thrice. Lol, same boat.

 

Yup. Thrice is one of those weekends.

 

This album reminds me a lot of A Black Mile to the Surface by Manchester Orchestra.

Not necessarily in the sense of how it sounds, but more so in scope, production, craft, and kind of just feeling like it’s more than a normal album. It’s an immersive experience.

The point being, it’s fucking awesome.

 

Just popping in to champion “Crown Candy” again.

 

Hope their setlist consists of a lot of NMG songs, I could live without Dealer tracks except for Night Channels

 

When I saw them before the album came out, right around when Slapstick was released, they were playing Grand Paradise, Slapstick, Lich Prince, Gameshark, Nearer My God, and Bastardizer. I could see Heartbeats, Won’t Drown, and possibly Lambert being added, but who knows.

 

I’m trying to search this, but I think I saw them when they played Slapstick for the first time live. About a year ago, in early September. First show of their tour with Manchester Orchestra.

Edit: Scratch that. They’d played it a few times before.

 

After reading drews review about the theme of impending doom throughout, the four horses on the cover seems totally appropriate haha

 

Not sure whether you've listened to the Nearer My Podcast's but on the last part they discuss in depth the symbolism of the album art and it is indeed referring to the Four Horsemen.

 

Just wanted to share that listening to this album while driving on rural North Carolina roads at night is a near-transcendent experience.

Heartbeats has become one of my favorites.

 

Nice! Still need to listen to that

 

is this rural mountains NC or rural piedmont NC? important details

 

Introduced this to a couple friends on a late drive this evening. The one who liked it more said he didn’t realize the 3 songs I played were from the same band but he dug it.

 

“You are not in love, so stop playing along”

Ugh. So simple, yet so effective. The lyrics on this thing are really starting to hit home for me.

 

Seeing them Tuesday and Wednesday this week, so excited

 

I’ll be working the night shift :(

 

Anyone catch the setlist from last night?

 

I would imagine this isn't ALL they played hahah Foxing Setlist at Mercy Lounge, Nashville

 

Seeing them tonight. Hoping for Won’t Drown. I’ll post a spoilered setlist after the show if no one beats me to it.

 

Bastardizer is my fav song. So freakin good.