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How Foxwarren Made a Folk Rock Album With a Hip-Hop Ethos


Foxwarren composed their new album '2' with a sampler, in studios across Canada.

“But it started to feel like such a strange limitation to be putting on myself.” He bit the bullet and bought a digital synthesizer and sampler, vowing to make one album with each. Spread out in home studios across Canada, they uploaded song ideas, loops, melodies and rhythmic patterns, as Shauf used the sampler to cut up the pieces and string them together. While Shauf’s solo records are highly conceptual — 2016’s “The Party” takes place over one night, with specific incidents described by different narrators — Foxwarren’s self-titled debut was intentionally opaque.

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