St. Louis emo stalwarts Foxing have introduced that they’re happening hiatus. “[It] has turn into clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making probably the most sincere and real artwork we will, 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 by way of 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 subsequent couple of years on the highway, touchdown opening slots for fellow emo favorites just like the Hotelier and Trendy Baseball.
Coll left Foxing between the discharge of 2015’s Vendor and 2018’s Nearer My God. Produced by Demise 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 truly works—the joys of its success amplified by palpable danger and an alternate, disastrous end 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 enjoying reveals, writing or doing something as Foxing.
It feels actually scary to say that. This band has been utterly inseparable from us as individuals for our whole grownup lives up up to now. It’s so a lot of our identification and our sense of self price on the earth. However it has turn into clear to us that in our pursuit of our desires and making probably the most sincere and real artwork we will, our relationship with music, one another, and our sense of self with out the band has eroded. We have now determined to prioritize this stuff and must step away from the band to take action.
These reveals in Chicago and St. Louis will probably be our final for the foreseeable future. Know that when you ever noticed us at a present or listened to our information, you have been getting probably the most from us that we might probably give in that second. We’ll come again if/after we really feel that now we have extra to offer.
