Kayla Bell - vocals, drums, keyboard Adam Bell - guitar, vocals, keyboard Al Grice - bass, keyboard, percussion Matt Twaites - omnichord, keyboard, guitar, bass
Influences
The Apples In Stereo, Yo La Tengo, The Unicorns, ESG, The Beach Boys, Beat Happening, Papas Fritas, Talulah Gosh, of Montreal, Scout Niblett, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Modern Lovers, Bearsuit, Desperate Bicycles, Young People, The La's, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, The Television Personalities, Elf Power, Crayon, Manitoba, =w=.
Sounds Like
Pleasing levels of naivety from indie poppers who clearly live in toy town. - Drowned in Sound, June 2009.
One could argue that this is the ultimate in fey and twee twinkling indie, but the truth is that this is an exceptional mini-epic. - Emily Slowlie on Who Killed Rob?, Manchester Music Reviews, June 2009.
They’ve got a singer with a voice like honey. - Maps Magazine, May 2009.
Foxes! are like a slice of sunny happyiness glowing on your face on a cold winters day. - Maddog Magazine, May 2009.
If you close your eyes and let your mind wander a little, the whole thing even has a touch of the Heavenly about it. - Another Form of Relief, May 2009.
Foxes! take the lollipops from their mouths, stick them behind their ears and get down with indiepop mini-epic ‘Oh Rosie’. It’s a schizo tune, first racing along on cowpunkish guitar and splish splashy drums, then swooning into softly glowing keyboards before winding up in a sheeny furze of fizzing guitars and girl/boy vocals. Curious pop. - Kitten Painting, February 2009.
Foxes! deliver sophisticated pop music that is as charming as it is catchy and as fresh as anything released on Cloudberry Records in the past 12 months. - Lostmusic, December 2008.
Astounding potential. - Ian Ray, The Argus, September 2008.
The woman that sings this has a wonderful voice, - but the music is like something from MARIO BROS! Sorry, but the two don't go together. - Deborah & Lauren on "It's Ridiculous, Adam", cd reviews(?), August 2008.
'It's Ridiculous, Adam' is Lesley Gore's 'It's My Party' reimagined for the 21st century, a wedge of casio pop that'll have your feet dancing while your heart breaks. - The Devil Has The Best Tuna, July 2008.
One of the true highlights of this fourteen track compilation ... [Foxes!] take Postal Service synths, Nintendo style melodies and minimal percussion, and lightly mould it together to provide something slight but alluring behind lead vocalist Kayla Bell’s wistful melancholy vocals in the delightful ‘It’s Ridiculous, Adam’. - Simon Catling reviewing 'A Sketch For Summer', Audioscribbler, July 2008.
[A] brilliantly twee electro pop record. - Intercourse with biscuits on 'It's Ridiculous, Adam', July 2008.
Their infectiously whimsical indie pop manages to bleet its way into your head. Think C86-infused melodic guitar music for 2008. - Jamila Scott,
Fucking Dance, June 2008.
Their performance was flawless. If you like Bloc Party, you will love these guys. - Jess Hamil,
Brighton Music Scene, May 2008.
Just as you've happily abandoned yourself to Foxes!' playful rhythms and melodies, they abruptly change tack, betraying a love of experimentation and a mischievous desire to confound your expectations as they temper the jangle pop at their core with spontaneous bursts of 50's rock'n'roll, spaghetti western, grunge and children's television music. - Amy Richardson, Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, May 2008.
Throws you a Joy Zipper dummy halfway through to blow your mind apart. - 'Descartes' on Meatbreak's Myspace Mixtape in The Brighton Source, March 2008.
Foxes! play the kind catchy, melodic - but not formulaic - indie pop with strong, sweet lead vocals which ranges from the neat noisy racket produced by the likes of Dressy Bessy (only better) to the slightly more twee side of things a la Yo La Tengo. - Too Much Apple Pie, March 2008.
La jolie voix de Kayla Bell et l’accompagnement très mélodique des arrangements invitent l’auditeur à découvrir un monde rempli de pépites fruitées et colorées où les influences notamment de Yo La Tengo et Belle and Sebastian se croisent. - pixel sounds, February 2008.
It's everything and more you want from an indie pop band. Well written songs, girl vocals, some jangling guitars and some lovely melodic sounds coming from the keyboards. That's all you need to know is it not? - Indie MP3, November 2007.
Their noise is a very entertaining one: scuffling drums, fuzzed out guitar, driving bass grooves and off-kilter power-pop melodies. - Galactic Mystery Solvers, July 2007.
Indie Pop com doces vozes, uma garota com um timbre até bem comum (lembra um monte de gente, como a vocalista do Moon ou a ex-guitarrista do Delgados, por exemplo) e m cara que canta "a la vocalista do B&S". - BRITROCK POST, July 2007.
The entire band has a wonky, school woodwork project feel, all odd angles and unplaned surfaces. But beneath all this lie some beautifully constructed melodies and a quiet sense of rock dynamics. - David Murphy, Oxfordbands.com, June 2007.
No one was daring enough to compete with Adam’s robot dance. - Trev Williams, June 2007.
Sounding a little like Belle and Sebastian lovingly preening the glossy locks of the Velvet Underground, but yet unmistakably forging their own identity, Foxes! (don’t forget the exclamation mark) exude the warmest of aural welcomes, yet manage to maintain a hint of punky DIY about themselves, with sparky riffs that nestle themselves joyfully into almost every song. - Seb, artsWOM, June 2007.
They cover such unexpected lyrical matter as the Jacobite rebellion, Spanish galleons and graveyards, all set to a twinkling jangle-pop soundtrack. - Ronan Munro, Nightshift Demo Of The Month, April 2007.
To pigeonhole them into a genre would be quite cruel, as they are more than just indie, rock, folk. They cover so many genres and will rock your world any time. The recordings are crystal clear and capture the scope of the band at their best. If you can, please see them live! You won't regret it! 9/10 - Warren, New Pollution, Issue 2: March 17 2007.
Dan Pacrami – visually hilarious in the best possible way. - Ramsy Alwakeel, Leeds Student, February 2007.
Damn, I love this band! - Jared, 5 Acts, February 2007.
Possible contenders for the best band in Oxford. - Tim Bearder on The Download, 17 February 2007.
The charming, wistful guitar stylings of Foxes! are highly commendable. 7/10 - Tim Newbound, Rock Sound Magazine on Alcopopular! vol 1, March 2007.
They're kind of like a bunch of really great old fashioned indie rock bands, like The Modern Lovers or the great Beat Happening. - Winston Echo's Blog, February 2007
It's hard not to feel an affinity with this compilation and the wholeheartedly open conviction with which it is delivered and nowhere is this truer than with Midget...and Foxes! - i-magazine on Alcopopular! vol 1, February 2007.
How could you not love 'em? - Chris Mac, Indiepages.com, December 2006.
Once I decided on what you are listening to now [6 O Clock], it was all too clear that the moving chores would have to wait another day. - Milk Milk Lemonade, December 2006.
Kayla has the energy of Emily Haines and angelic tone of Kori Gardner, with colorful lyrics describing anything from a cigarette search to the love of vegetables. - Mike Mineo, Obscure Sound, December 2006.
A 3-way volley-ball knockout with Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes and Shampoo. - Opposition, November 2006.
These kids kick out some delicious DIY power pop. - Audictive, November 2006.
There's a great deal of nearly straightforward old fashioned indiepop with secretly disquieting moments, reminding us of lo-fi early Modest Mouse or The Popguns-era subtle jangle. - Sweeping The Nation, November 2006.
They won't be the preserve of Oxford for long. - NME, 25 November 2006.
There’s something touching and beautiful about this single, the warmth just spreads amongst us all! - Jeremy Chick, Subba-Cultcha on 46a Appleside Drive, November 2006.
I'd venture to say that they are probably the most exciting band I've ever come across solely because of myspace. Kayla Bell, Adam Bell, and Daniel Pacrami make some of the most refreshing indie pop I've heard in a while. - Skatterbrain, November, 2006
Foxes! could be marketable, with their slick, Pixies in anger management rock n roll. - Gigwise.com, October 2006
The drummer has a fantastic voice which is criminally wasted in the band. - Tom Chandler, Oxfordbands.com, October 2006
What's this indie boho hippy experimental pop/rock? I dunno... A bit like The Guillemots, but with a female singer and very strange and wonderful dynamics. Some nice melodies and a very sweet voice.... Yes! - Bugbear Promotions Website, September 2006
Reminiscent of White Stripes with home made instruments. - M. Conmy, BBC Radio Oxford, September 2006
They're a rather sweet proposition, a bit like Lily Allen fronting Heavenly. - Ronan Munro, Nightshift Magazine, September 2006
Foxes! have the Bearsuit charm without the gimmicks but with the heart of Mates Of State. - Tom Sutton, Backlash Magazine Online, August 2006
Like a warm bubble bath in a field in Devon. - Oxfordbands on 'Apples To Apples', July 2006
There was no chicanery here, it was just three bonhomie types all coeval physically and mentally. They peeled back the patina of the night and enticed the salmagundi of striplings to take their caution and defenestrate it. Sorry if I've been a little fustian but they deserve the effort. - Tim Bearder, BBC Oxford Music, July 2006
Their set is a rough mix of lindyhopping naivete, ebullient garage bash and no wave loft experiment as performed by local village oddballs at some flea-bitten village fete. In other words hugely entertaining. - David Murphy, Nightshift Magazine, July 2006
Foxes! debut EP is a great thing and proof that the DIY spirit of indie pop is alive and kicking. - Russell Barker, Oxfordbands.com/Russell's Reviews, June 2006
Their happy rock about vegetarian beef, among other things, puts me in a womb where it's nice and warm. This is an act that has the potential to enjoy me for many a gig, thus I cry along with Snoopy as I have to leave the womb in what feels like a premature birth. I will keep an extra eye out for Foxes!, since they made me cry. For more! - Karl Von-Helvete, The Denture, May 2006
The single is also now in the racks of most quality independent shops across the country, including Rough Trade, Selectadisc, Rounder, Sister Ray, Pure Groove, Action, Norman, Spiller, etc.
"Christmas Songs" EP
December 2008
This festive EP was a free download release from our Last.fm page.
A Sketch For Summer Compilation
(Features "It's Ridiculous, Adam")
July 2008
This summery compilation from CatCutter Records was available FREE of charge from independent music shops around the country.
The Panda Bear Song: Download Single
December 2007
The Panda Bear Song is available as a Download Single over at Shifty Disco.
"Hellomynameishenry@hotmail.com"
February 2007
Our 2nd EP is now sold out. You can click on the artwork to stream through Last.fm.
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We've got a new song up if you care to listen. It's called 'Feel Alive' and we've been told by people it's our best song, but then again we play it last live, so maybe they just like it cos after that we shut up and fuck off.
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