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Foxes in the Snow is the tenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, released on March 7, 2025 on Southeastern. Produced by Isbell and Gena Johnson, the album was recorded in five days at Electric Lady Studios in New York, and is Isbell's first solo acoustic album. The album is also Isbell's first since his debut, Sirens of the Ditch (2007), not to feature any members of his backing band, The 400 Unit. Preceded by the singles, "Bury Me" and "Foxes in the Snow", the album's lyrics are partly influenced by Isbell's divorce from Amanda Shires, his wife of eleven years and former bandmate, while also taking inspiration from a new relationship with artist Anna Weyant, who created the album's artwork. The album was recorded in five days at Electric Lady Studios in New York, with producer Gena Johnson. The album's stark, acoustic aesthetic features Isbell performing on a 1940 Martin guitar throughout. Regarding his decision to record Foxes in the Snow on his own, without the participation of his backing band The 400 Unit, Isbell noted: "I don’t want to keep doing stuff that’s easy. A lot of the stories on this record, a lot of these details and a lot of these songs are very personal. I didn’t want to force anybody else to be in the room with that. When you’re being this open and this vulnerable, there’s something about doing it alone. Even though you know that the results are going to get broadcast to everybody, there’s something about sitting with a guitar and singing a song that makes sense to me when it’s this personal."
This is a good southern rock album by Jason Isbell. I think his previous two solo albums (Southeastern and Something More Than Free) are better. His albums (solo or with Drive-By Truckers) certainly deserve a place on the user and/or 1001 list. Great songwriting (lyrics and music) and live he is one of the best artists at the moment.
Wow there is a lot of passion in this album. Amazing what a guy and a guitar can do. Bravo!
Love Jason Isbell 5 4
I really liked this. 4 stars.
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Eileen, Foxes in the snow
Minimalism at its best. Just 1 man and his guitar Some songs I could really relate to
I really enjoyed this beautiful Americana album. The instrumentation with Isbell's voice is a perfect blend.
Starts out slowly and opens with a jumpscare full-on bullshit yeehaw country song, but thankfully moves on to a much better sort of folksy singer-songwriter sound later on. That whole song run from the title track until the end was great.
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Singer songwriter has big feelings and lets you know about them
A respectable entry in this genre of Country adjacent singer-songwriter fare. Well performed with decent singing and very solid finger-picked guitar. The lyrics, while well-constructed, lean a little heavily on cliché and a pointedly homespun vibe that I felt got laid on a little thick at times. Happy to give it a listen nonetheless.
Folk, country. Ni fu ni fa.
Just realized this is the first album by Isbell on this list. His songwriting ability should have him on the original list. This recent album is a really strong album and is mostly a recollection of the past. Some of the songs are masterfully written and you can feel the burden of life and love lost in the songs. As much as I enjoyed this I find Southeastern to be a little bit better but this was still an enjoyable album from one of the better songwriters today. 7.7/10
Too twang for me, but I did appreciate some of the funny lyrics.
As far as these things go, I generally enjoy Jason Isbell. He's among the better singer songwriters working these days. I don't know how much this particular album stands out even among Isbell's other work, but I liked it fine. It's beautifully written and well played, but a little slow moving for my mood today. Fave Songs: Foxes in the Snow, Gravelweed, Open and Close, Bury Me, Ride to Robert's
Not sure why but I’ve never really been able to get into Isbell’s stuff. It’s well written and he’s a good singer and musician but it all just sounds kind of the same to me and I never connect with anything. This album from earlier this year is no different
Yeah.......I liked it. Mainly the Folk side and acoustic guitar- it's simple and honest. I like British and Irish Folk so this resonated with me. As far as the Country aspect went it was an interesting slant since I'm not a big fan. It was a good combination.
It's fine
Another 2025 album, ok then... Oh god it's frontier folk music or whatever you call it. Please no!! Update: it didn't change genre after the first song. It was acoustic frontier country hill folk music the whole time. 2/5.
Classic (adj.): judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. Quit adding recent releases to the list! Defeats the whole point of the project. This isn't even Isbell's best LP by a mile, with its downtempo focus and lack of exciting songwriting. Some of y'all have no music taste of your own, and it shows if you can only think to add the most recent album you listened to. Fucking brain-dead pick.
Good album just not my cup of tea.
For an artist who hung out and played with Drive-By-Truckers, this is a surprisingly generic, by-the-numbers collection of tame folk songs with a lot of predictable chords, lyrics and vocal melodies. As a result, the whole thing comes off as interchangeable with a number of other acts in the genre, never really standing out from that well-trodden field in America's heartland. A couple of exceptions break that rule of thumb, fortunately, like the harmonically very nice title-track or the subtle and delicate "Crimson And Clay". Yet in that overall genre, I'd rather go to the frailty of Neil Young's voice over his own seventies folk jewels. Or I'd go to the lo-fi shenanigans of The Mountain Goats at his best. Or to the snarling political vignettes of Jesse Welles. Or I'd choose the stellar and soothing songwriting within Adrienne Lenker's ballads and country-twang gems. Anything that shows at least a little bit of *personality* -- musicians not necessarily aiming for perfection performance-wise, but striving for inventive and truly creative ways to wear their hearts on their sleeves. With modern ones such as Lenker, for instance, you have that impulse to compose the most breathtaking guitar arrangements over memorable and original chord sequences. Something a very competent yet ultimately-by-the-book artist such as Jason Isbell will probably never be able to pull off. Of course, I get that for the person who submitted this album, all the references I've quoted up there would probably display too many quirks distracting the listener from appreciating how great the songwriting actually is. It's a matter of personal taste, as always. For that person, the lack of salient features in *Foxes In The Snow* is probably what makes it some sort of platonic ideal in the genre. While for me, it's what makes it a borefest. And as usual, no one is necessarily right or wrong about those things... 2/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 7/10 for more general purposes. Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 33 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 42 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 83 (including this one) ---- Émile, quelques récentes réponses au dessus...