{"product_id":"45778812622","title":"Foxwarren - 2 - Import CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoxwarren\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile not a complete renunciation of their 2018 eponymous debut, the second album by Foxwarren -- singer\/songwriter Andy Shaufs band with friends from college -- represents a surprising shift in approach. Whereas the debut consisted of a trippy, pastoral indie rock, the follow-up, titled 2, was put together by Shauf after bandmembers, located across four Canadian provinces, collected song ideas and musical fragments in a shared folder. Citing musicians like MF Doom as inspirations, Shauf plugged these ideas and others into a sampler and, along with field recordings and movie clips featuring dialog and score material by the likes of Max Steiner, pieced together, hip-hop style, a primarily melodic sequel that plays a lot like a rap-era mixtape. What remains similar between the bands albums is Shaufs unmistakable warm, tempered vocals and a sense of melancholia that acts like a glue, both across this track list -- 15 songs and interludes that clock in at around 35 minutes -- and the entire output of the project. Sounding very much cobbled together but also maple sweet, it opens with \"Dance,\" an orchestra-injected midtempo contemplation about wanting to dance, with looped piano, light live (-sounding) drums and bass, occasional flute, and a closing fanfare. Its followed by the funkier, breakbeat-adjacent \"Sleeping,\" which credits 1947s Life with Father for its symphonic music samples, alongside movie dialog including the track-opening \"Im leaving in the morning, honey, Ill be gone a long time….\" The rest of 2 continues in kind, with excursions into the period, stereotypical-Asian-noir-sounding score samples of \"Strange\" preceding the manipulated orchestra samples of the film-centric \"Havana,\" which in turn leads into one of the most tuneful, solo-Shauf-like entries here, \"Yvonne,\" whose accompaniment includes muffled drums and seagulls. Also on deck are the more classic rock-leaning, relatively upbeat \"Deadhead\" and the clap-along disco of \"Wings.\" By the arrival of the glitchier closing track, \"Again\u0026amp;,\" 2 has come off as just a bit too haphazard and like editing practice to be fully immersive; however, its bittersweetness and unusual, playful spontaneity are, like Shauf, not without their charms. ~ Marcy Donelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Dance2.Sleeping3.Say It4.Listen2me5.Quitealot26.Strange7.Havana8.Yvonne9.Deadhead10.True11.Round\u0026amp;Round12.Dress13.Wings14.Serious15.Again\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e1.Dance\u003cbr\u003e2.Sleeping\u003cbr\u003e3.Say It\u003cbr\u003e4.Listen2me\u003cbr\u003e5.Quitealot2\u003cbr\u003e6.Strange\u003cbr\u003e7.Havana\u003cbr\u003e8.Yvonne\u003cbr\u003e9.Deadhead\u003cbr\u003e10.True\u003cbr\u003e11.Round\u0026amp;Round\u003cbr\u003e12.Dress\u003cbr\u003e13.Wings\u003cbr\u003e14.Serious\u003cbr\u003e15.Again\u0026amp;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51232530202913,"sku":"45778812622","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/45778812622.jpg?v=1745850761","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/de-de\/products\/45778812622","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}