Tag: canadian music
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About the Record: Foxchase – Moonlight
In Moonlight, we step directly into the moment when you realize that it’s time for a major shift. In this case it takes on the form of an overdue break-up where neither of you are quite right for each other. Even when we know this about our relationships, letting go of what you thought you…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Awake
Awake finds us towards the aftermath of our struggle clinging to our hope for a better future and the strength we need to make it through. We all find our strength and faith in different avenues, some find it from people, others in their chosen spiritual or religious deity, and others in music or art,…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Butterflies
Butterflies is another track originally first recorded and heard on Jestem Krzywym Lasem. That EP is sort of the ultra-condensed short-story version of this album and of course I encourage you to give it a listen if you haven’t yet. Despite the cute title, Butterflies is all about anxiety, fear and the way we sometimes…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Bitter
Without getting too deep into the gritty details, here’s what I can tell you about my worst experience with sexual assault. I spent the years that followed it in deep denial. From the moment I woke up that day on a couch that was not my own, I knew something was wrong. I scrambled around…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Driveway
I never thought very deeply about suicide until someone I knew committed it. It’s another one of those moments in my life that completely changed the way I thought about people and the challenges we all face. Driveway is a song that was first featured on my EP Jestem Krzywym Lasem but I always felt…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Let’s Not
Taking a break from the metaphorical analysis of our mind and life experience, Let’s Not is a song that reflects on relationships that have damaged us and our part in them. We have a funny way of both downplaying and hyperbolizing experiences we’ve had, usually to protect ourselves from further grief or to bolster our…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Abandon
Pirate ends with a feeling of being inspired to take action, something I hope everyone feels at some point in their lifetime where they’re driven by whatever they’re most passionate about (and this can be many different things over time, of course). But it’s not always quite as easy as jumping into creating a plan…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Pirate
Pirate is the last song in Act I of Foxchase; a bit of a cliffhanger that stems directly from the ideas introduced in Better Role Models and documents the beginning of another big shift in my life. They say don’t get angry, get even, as in, channel your frustration into something actionable and productive to…
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About the Record: Foxchase – Better Role Models
Coming right off the heels of Values and the ideas presented in it, Better Role Models is a reflection of the type of people who were the guiding voices of my youth and how my lack of awareness then led to an idealistic view of them that perhaps never existed. It’s a tongue in cheek…
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About the Record: Foxchase – State Lines
Sometime in 2002 I was a frequent contributor to the dwindling official Treble Charger message boards. The band had recently released Detox and then shortly after announced an indefinite hiatus; a crushing blow to young me who was a bit of a super fan of the band to say the least. There were only a…
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