{"id":3321,"date":"2021-01-22T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2021-01-17T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T23:58:45","slug":"fox-face-end-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/fox-face-end-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Face “End Of Man”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking about a fox face may give many of us warm, fuzzy feelings. But don\u2019t forget that foxes have teeth.While Milwaukee quartet Fox Face may not bite your face, their new album End of Man\u00a0might just melt it off.<\/em><\/p>\n

Featuring players drawn from various corners of the Brewtown music scene, Fox Face came together organically ahead of the recording sessions for their November 2017 debut album,\u00a0Spoil + Destroy.\u00a0Main songwriter Lindsay DeGroot (The Olives) started working on her songs with multi-instrumentalist Lydia Washechek (Static Eyes). Eventually fellow Olives member Mary Hickey joined up on bass, and the final piece of the band was found with the addition of drummer Christopher Capelle (Midwest Beat, Long Line Riders). Spoil + Destroy\u00a0was one of the best garage punk albums of 2017-2018, taking on science deniers, misogynists and other jerks with songs anchored by fiery guitar playing and rock-solid ensemble playing.<\/em><\/p>\n

End of Man, set for release \u00a0January 22nd<\/sup>, 2021\u00a0on now Milwaukee-based Dirtnap Records, bumps up the furious guitar sound of\u00a0Spoil + Destroy\u00a0a few more notches. It\u2019s not hard rock, per se, but the album\u2019s sound edges in that direction. And you can tell that Fox Face has been playing together for several years now, because these recordings are tight AF. There\u2019s no filler or extraneous padding; the arrangements and playing make for a cohesive whole, and lyrically the songs are direct and to the point while still remaining universal enough to be met on personal terms by the listener.<\/em><\/p>\n

The songs again are again mostly provided by DeGroot, but everyone brought lyrics and music to the party. (Capelle instigated the album\u2019s one cover, a reinvention of the Ethel Waters number \u201cThere\u2019ll Be Some Changes Made,\u201d recorded for Milwaukee Record\u2019s Public Domain series.) The songs speak to our current fraught climate in both outward- and inward-looking ways. It\u2019s necessary to call out the stomping title track as the best song Black Sabbath never wrote. Beyond that: Listen to the album, and let your ears find the songs on your own terms.<\/em><\/p>\n

End of Man\u00a0may not be a party record \u2026 at least, once you let the lyrics filter past your lizard brain enjoyment of the blazing riffs. But art is not supposed to be all fun and games. Standing up and speaking truth may not be the easiest path for a band or its listeners, but there is much to be said for catharsis. Anyone feeling despair and helplessness about our current political and societal breakdown should find some common ground to rage along with these new songs from Fox Face.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thinking about a fox face may give many of us warm, fuzzy feelings. But don\u2019t forget that foxes have teeth.While Milwaukee quartet Fox Face may not bite your face, their new album End of Man\u00a0might just melt it off. Featuring players drawn from various corners of the Brewtown music scene, Fox Face came together organically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-releases"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dirtnaprecs.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}