Music:
Member Since: 8/6/2004
Band Website: foxesfoxesfoxes.com
Band Members: Kayla Bell - vocals, drums, keyboard
Adam Bell - guitar, vocals, keyboard
Al Grice - bass, keyboard, percussion
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=.
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Sounds Like: 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.
You rule!!! - The Apples In Stereo , 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
Record Label: Not really.
Type of Label: Indie
