St. Louis emo stalwarts Foxing have introduced that they’re occurring hiatus. “[It] has turn out to be clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making essentially the most sincere and real artwork we are able to, our relationship with music, one another, and our sense of self with out the band has eroded,” the band wrote in an announcement posted to social media.
Foxing will play two farewell reveals—one in Chicago and one in St. Louis—in December. See these dates and discover the group’s full message under.
Foxing was fashioned in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2011, by bassist Josh Coll, drummer Jon Hellwig, and guitarist Matthew Piva. The band went via a number of lineup modifications earlier than the 2013 launch of debut album The Albatross. By then, Foxing had settled right into a five-piece of Coll, Hellwig, vocalist Conor Murphy, and guitarists Ricky Sampson and Eric Hudson. Foxing spent the following couple of years on the street, touchdown opening slots for fellow emo favorites like the Hotelier and Modern Baseball.
Coll left Foxing between the discharge of 2015’s Dealer and 2018’s Nearer My God. Produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, Nearer My God marked the band’s leap to anthemic, festival-sized indie-rock. In his evaluation of Nearer My God, Ian Cohen wrote that it “supplies the incapacitating rush of watching a damaged play develop right into a Hail Mary, a half-court buzzer beater, a double steal that really works—the fun of its success amplified by palpable threat and an alternate, disastrous final result that was narrowly averted.”
After Nearer My God, Foxing launched Draw Down the Moon, in 2021, and a 2024 self-titled album.
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Foxing:
After 14 years as a band and 12 years of constant touring, we’ve determined to take a hiatus from taking part in reveals, writing or doing something as Foxing.
It feels actually scary to say that. This band has been fully inseparable from us as folks for our total grownup lives up up to now. It’s so a lot of our id and our sense of self price on the earth. However it has turn out to be clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making essentially the most sincere and real artwork we are able to, our relationship with music, one another, and our sense of self with out the band has eroded. We’ve got determined to prioritize this stuff and must step away from the band to take action.
These reveals in Chicago and St. Louis will likely be our final for the foreseeable future. Know that should you ever noticed us at a present or listened to our information, you had been getting essentially the most from us that we might presumably give in that second. We’ll come again if/once we really feel that we’ve got extra to provide.
