New single from Foxy Leopard

Many artists use technology to make music today but Quebec-based project Foxy Leopard uses is as part of the story itself. Human emotion, memory, history and artificial intelligence all feed into a project that’s developed an astonishing creative world where personal experience is run through digital processes and returned as something newly imagined. Foxy Leopard stands as an alternative country project that feels equally intimate and conceptual, using Americana, country and folk storytelling to examine the ways people remember, connect and sometimes lose their way.

The origins of Foxy Leopard began with an experiment when years ago, a solitary writer started feeding fragments of ideas into a neural network, offering memories, grief, emotions and unresolved moments to a system intended not merely to process information, but to actually interpret it. From that unusual exchange came a growing artistic project increasingly concerned with creativity, authorship and the possibility of technology becoming part of the storytelling process.

That vision first took shape through the debut album Echoes of the Night, a record that revealed Foxy Leopard’s vision by treating emotion itself as a landscape. From there, the project widened its focus and while human connection remained central, history became an increasingly important part of Foxy Leopard’s work, particularly the emotional environment surrounding the American Civil War. Eschewing the battles, generals and political milestones, the project looks at what comes before catastrophe from the gradual shifts in identity, belief and everyday life that can carry ordinary people towards conflict.

The album War & Peace built on that historical perspective, approaching the American Civil War as something more than a sequence of events to present an emotional landscape shaped by sacrifice, disillusionment and collective trauma. The following release, Echoes of the Civil War, continued to explore the lasting emotional residue left behind by history, considering how events continue to echo long after they have officially ended.

Now, that story arc reaches a particularly important moment with “We Keep Walking,” the latest single lifted from Foxy Leopard’s album titled Before. The concept record explores the final months before the American Civil War through the experiences of ordinary people and “We Keep Walking” stands as one of its most emphatic emotional turning points. Revolving around a memorable and driving chorus, the song captures a disturbing kind of momentum by framing the moment when people stop questioning what’s happening around them and simply continue moving forward.

Brought in by the surge of impassioned vocalisations which ring out above bluesy banjo plucks, the track jumps into an uptempo country march where punching kick and rustling percussive textures are capped by lively harmonica leads. Simmering down into a brooding chorus of soulful vocals and highly affecting, storytelling lyrics, the song glides with intricate instrumental flickers as it rolls into an anthemic chorus where belted hooks deliver metaphorical lines of layered meaning. Cut with moments of bouncy harmonica-led passages and driven by the steady drive of the beat, “We Keep Walking” sees Foxy Leopard lay down another gripping musical experience that’s musically engaging and thematically profound.

Within the world of Before, the track sits just before the album’s closing chapter, “When It Falls Apart,” positioning it as the final calm before inevitability takes over. Hope has not completely disappeared but it’s beginning to give way and while the road ahead is still technically open, the song asks whether the people travelling it are still capable of turning back. With “We Keep Walking,” Foxy Leopard transforms that idea into a compelling and deeply human piece of storytelling that asks listeners to look at the strange power of momentum itself and consider how easily history can begin when nobody stops walking.

Listen to We keep Walking below

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