Losing
Today - "Mr Fox was head honcho of post rock dudes Grover who, in a career spanning just over a decade, released with continued enthusiasm and acclaim a plethora of singles and albums as well as recording an all important session for a certain Mr Peel. Now after a radical change in direction, Mr Fox is back...Reflective and resolute...it's a hurting pastoral treasure that tenderly touches and tears as though unpicking your heartstrings while all the time romancing you with its unwinding beautified backdrops. Is there anything more entrancing we wonder? Time to kick back, chill out and drift away - all I need now is a porch a rocking chair and blazing summer falling nights." ..
C O L O U R - "Simon Fox is one of the region’s most talented folk musicians. Featuring gentle fingerpicking laid over swirling, mesmeric backgrounds, it’s a captivating record that reveals itself slowly, unfurling a great range and depth beneath it’s beguiling exterior. The immersive atmospherics add a twist to the pastoral folk guitar that eddies above. This makes the extended instrumental passages coursing through the album a beautiful place to lose yourself a little. Lyrically, Fox playfully adapts tried-and-true verse and rhyme structures to tell modern tales of lost loves, existential malaise and drunken belligerence."
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Bearded Magazine -
"Sitting comfortably in the line up for the End Of The Road festival, the current incarnation of Simon Fox (Grover, Krafla) allows the prolific musician to lull us into a sleepy hypnotic state with exceptional guitar chiming techniques, as Fox shows his hand at the banjo, keyboards, theremin, mandolin, as well as other percussion, brass and woodwind instruments. It’s a beautiful record to listen to. Even if outside of your door is a concrete floor or a busy road, put on your headphones, look up to the sky and elevate yourself to a gentler plain, but if you shed a tear, don’t blame me."
"A prolific and committed independent musician, SIMON FOX was formerly leader of Birmingham’s post-rock pioneers, GROVER. Between 1993-2003, Grover released a host of albums, singles and split releases on independent labels around the world. Broadcasts on BBC Radio1 (including a Peel Session in 2001), plus airtime on a variety of independent stations in Europe and the USA, helped Grover build a dedicated international fan-base and influence the UK post-rock scene.
Since then, Simon has quietened down, trading sweeping guitar theatrics for more intimate, acoustic-led songwriting. The new songs, performed under the moniker FOX, show a more personal, reflective side, with deceptively rich arrangements, a disarming wit and a flair for creating intimate moods. Recordings feature Simon playing a wide variety of instruments, including guitars, banjo, percussion, keyboards, theremin, mandolin, even occasional brass and woodwind.
As well as performing solo, Simon can often be seen/heard collaborating with other artists. Most notably, he is one half of electronica duo KRAFLA, was a founder member of the EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC COLLECTIVE, recorded and gigged an album with CLAIR
HORTON, is currently working with JAMES
SUMMERFIELD and is a regular guest DJ for the GRUMPY
MAN DJs."
world
of fox
everything is for the best (comin005)
debut album on commercially
inviable - released 1st august2009
12 tracks - cd BUY
NOW
1.please
take your time 2.witness 3.idiocracy 4.leaves me blind 5.you don't know
me 6.the spider 7.i'll pay more attention to you 8.stoneground wholemeal
9.more fool me 10.yarlington mill 11.rules of engagement 12.a solitary
tree on the brow of a hill
fox skip more school(wiaiwya052)
split single on where
it's at is where you are - released
june 2009 4 tracks - FREE
DOWNLOAD 1.i'm on fire (the snow) 2.atlantic city (little
eiffel & the birthday girl) 3.bobby jean (the neath st band) 4.raise
your hand (fox)
lonesome
fox
the first rule of comedy e.p. (bearos 071) debut
release on bearos
- released 2007 4 tracks - 3" cd
1.please take your time 2.grumpy man blues 3.learning to
pray again 4.sunbeam
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
I'd like to invite you to my birthday bash which is in about three weeks time and will be my debut live performance. I'll be putting the flyers out soon. The band I had lined up to play have let me down so I'll be promoting it as a last minute open mic night for Minimalist/Experimental guitar players, electric or otherwise. Hope you can make it.
Its been selling faster than we expected, and we currently only have around a quarter of our stock left - so we thought we'd better you all know that if you want a copy then now would be a good time to pick one up! If you buy it from the link above then you're buying it direct from us, the label aren't taking a cut - so its a bit like Fair Trade for struggling musicians.
International mail-order is available, just follow the instructions.
Thank you very much, and sorry for making a mess of your profile. If its any kind of consolation, we don't have a MySpace bot, so I'm leaving these comments the old fashioned way. Three -and-a-half thousand of them. My life is so exciting.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.
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