‘Sirens’ doesn’t settle into the background of Lost Foxes’ sophomore LP—it crashes through it with the weight of unresolved emotion clawing at the bones of To Get Used to You Gone, an emotionally turbulent tour de force that holds no prisoners in the name of candour.
Duncan Therrell, the creative force behind Lost Foxes, has never played by the rulebook, and in his latest release, he doesn’t just ignore convention—he grinds it into the dirt beneath syncopated beats that rip through the mix like a live wire.
Opening with an alternative slant on Slowdive’s cuttingly angular guitars, the track teeters on the edge of familiarity before wreaking havoc on the rhythmic pulses. From there, Sirens swells into a new-wave synth anthem, its oscillating layers stacked with enough textural depth to pull listeners under, all while Therrell’s indie-pop-adjacent vocal lines bleed melancholy over the frenetic percussion.
More of an avant-gardist than an assimilator, Lost Foxes chips away at expectation with every unflinchingly unfeigned note. Then, the hypersonic middle eight obliterates all restraint, leaving only rubble in its wake and the mark of a true innovator.
Sirens is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast