At the time of writing this, Foxchase has been out for 3 months. It arrived officially on March 15th although, if you were subscribed here or to my Bandcamp page you got it a little earlier than that.
It seems like enough time has passed that we can dive into talking about it.
I like to preface Foxchase by saying that although it’s the 2nd full-length album in the Neither Could Dylan series, it’s really more of a precursor to the record I re-introduced myself with in Acceptance.
If Acceptance was all about making peace with the things we cannot change, Foxchase is full of things that led to wanting that change.
It’s named after the street one of my childhood best friends lived on that I’d spend a lot of time with between 7th and 10th grade in Woodbridge, Ontario; A few years that I believe were pivotal for our emotional development.
As I chose the songs that would find their home on this album I felt quite strongly that each one led into each other and in some instances leaned off of the one before or after it.
Based on my suburban upbringing, I took the story to the high seas and deserted beaches of my own mind that allowed me the space and time to understand to some extent the impact of the most significant and seemingly insignificant experiences of my younger self.
The result is a record that is a little turbulent, fighting against the winds that force themselves upon us as well as filled with moments of joy that remind us that those challenging conditions do pass. As with life, though, those challenges carry a heavy weight and take up more space than those other smaller moments of peace and optimism and that’s reflected in the themes of these songs and the cinematic production of them.
Foxchase can be broken up into 3 distinct acts that all reinforce its message which ultimately is about compassion, understanding, faith and patience with ourselves and our chosen life path.
When I say faith, I don’t mean religious faith although that is a recurring theme in Foxchase (I’m a bit of a glutton for the imagery). Rather, faith and confidence in your own life choices; The willingness and courage to define your own moral compass and hold yourself to the standard you believe most important to you as defined by your values and goals because ultimately it is you who has to live with them, no one else.
Over the next 17 blogs, I’ll take you through each song on the album and what inspired them.
Thanks for any bit of time you spend with me and Foxchase and I hope you enjoy my songs and stories. They’re not always easy to talk about, but after spending so much of my life holding them all in I believe there to be far greater value in sharing them than keeping them rattling away inside myself.
As they become available, you’ll be able to jump to the next blog through the links below.
Official Track List & Table of Contents:
- Revelations
- State Lines
- Values
- Better Role Models
- Pirate
- Abandon
- Let’s Not
- Driveway
- Bitter
- Butterflies
- Awake
- Moonlight
- Through
- Feel Something
- Today
- Records
- Girls Like Me
Foxchase is available everywhere you stream including right here on neithercoulddylan.ca and at this time is exclusively a digital release.
If you liked the record, please share it to your socials & with your friends! I’d love to be able to perform these songs for more people and just doing that goes a long way to making that possible. Thank you!
Neither Could Dylan 
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