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Foxes drops the creepy candy-coated music video for the title track to her debut album. The "Clarity" singer brings power and polish to her upbeat and danceable debut album about throwaway nights and wasted days, the foibles and rollercoasters of love, "love" and lurve, and swaps EDM for hammering tribal drums, dramatic orchestrations and powerful singing with genuine pop-gems with sun-baked choruses and enough bite to warrant repeated listens. For her new video, Foxes visits the town of Stepford - renamed by her to be the town of "Glorious," but the concept remains the same - shows us how the uppercrust lives.
Everything about this debut from Southampton singer-songwriter Louisa Rose Allen, better known as Foxes, strains to be huge. Though the album is formulaic and polished, there is enough crackle in its dark, lustrous soundscapes and tales of nocturnal romance to intrigue and Foxes' voice has the power to match those booming drums. It's been a long time coming, but Foxes has executed a surprisingly near-perfect album that remains cohesive without each song sounding like one another. Hitting the nail on the head, this album is very much a glorious effort.
Title track "Glorious," in short, is what it says on the tin. The melancholic faux-dubstep ballad truly stands out on the album and it's easy to see why the album shares its name with this song. Foxes' unique songwriting stands out yet again and also shows off her flare for writing a catchy melody. While it's impossible to fault "Glorious" in any way, it's best moment is the final minute where Foxes is joined by layer upon layer of backing vocals to belt out a heart wrenching lyric and melody combination to an epic crescendo.
Filmed in Spain, the retro-pastel clip about the glorious life at the country club finds Foxes at a summer dinner party surrounded by still people while she lounging poolside takes her time to liven up the party and sings over soaring instrumentals. The idea of animatronic, soulless suburban sprawl is artfully captured in these white-boarded houses and plush lawns. What is distressing is that our focal point, Foxes is hard to differentiate from the citizens of "Glorious," aside from her angst-filled lip synching. To call this country-club setting unsettling and sterile is definitely an understatement. It's simultaneously romantic and on the verge of social implosion.

Foxes is back again and dances the night away in her new music video for the promotional single "Holding Onto Heaven." The inspiring soul-pop song serves as the third cut to be lifted from the English singer's upcoming debut album "Glorious," scheduled to be released on May 12th. Foxes had a pretty big year thanks to the massive airplay success of Zedd's Grammy Award winning "Clarity," which was absolutely ubiquitous and “Youth” is one of the best tracks of 2013). But we still feel like there's a ton we've yet to learn about the 24-year-old Brit.
"Holding Onto Heaven," is the pain of loving someone who is so good at pretending. Foxes wants to reach out to who he really is, to the side to you that isn't running, but I don't know where it is. He tries to pretend their love wasn't for real. Foxes sings back that she still loves and needs him: "I see the guilt in your eyes, I hate what you've done, what you've made me become." Will he finally believe in true love? Will she continue to hope and holding onto heaven? It's not quite as colossal as either "Clarity" or "Youth," but it still follows a quality formula: Twinkly synths lead into a chorus that crashes and soars, with big choir vocals; "Holding Onto Heaven" has a nice, stampeding quality that makes it compulsively replayable.

The accompanying clip sees the "Youth" singer channeling her inner introvert and extrovert in two different versions of the same retro-tinged dance, and the two splits represents her happy side and sad side. As the wide-eyed songstress flip between parties in parallel universes, as each of the events takes place on the ceiling of the other, and makes her way through the party on a high note, stealing every man and dancing with them before the shot turns upside down to reveal a different, depressing, and boring party scenario.
A lonely Foxes toys with a tinkling music box. While she wanders through a dining room where everyone's got someone except her, the camera opens to a 'heaven' above, where a reckless Foxes initiates dances, love and excitement. Spinning back down, lonely Foxes wishes she could make her dreams come true. The visuals pair perfectly with the track's lyrical content, which centers on doubt and uncertainty. Check out happy and sad Foxes having a good and bad time dancing with other people and just standing singing alone in a green-painted room below!

You might not know Foxes by her name, but you definitely know her voice. She's the English singer-songwriter (aka Louisa Rose Allen) featured on Zedd's inescapable smash hit, "Clarity," and is now gearing up to release her debut album "Glorious," due out on March 4th via Sony Music Entertainment. the up and comer Brit-Pop sensation has just unleashed the fun and colorful video for new single, "Let Go For Tonight," a song originally from her "Warrior" EP that has been revamped as the next official single and sixth overall taken from Foxes' upcoming debut studio album.
Similar to her previous releases, Foxes' new offering, written by herself, is an inspiring mid-tempo pop tune and a wonderful synth-pop creation with loud, crashing production and an emphasis on her show-stopping acrobatic vocal performance. Foxes sings here about forgetting about your problems, and living your "present" the happiest you can. "Let go for tonight baby/ Let love in your life and be shown/ Let go for tonight baby, who needs sleep tonight," the 24-year-old British beauty sings.

With a soft, piano-driven intro, the single then kicks the energy into full gear as the four minutes roll on. "So I call your name, the only thing I know, is I need you here, will you be gone forever?", the singer questions before the chorus comes crashing in. The track is poppy, fun and inspiring. While the track holds fast to the worldly toned elements that her previous works are centered around, it also brings an explosive element to her sound that hasn't been showcased before. "Let Go For Tonight" may be her most gripping song yet. Sung with extraordinary heart, the lyrics propel over the gentle instrumental with such ambition that they quickly become the centerpiece in what is an overall fascinating anthem.
As for the Marc Klasfeld-directed video, Foxes does what she sings and lets go by taking part in a big mess at a dinner party after throwing colorful childish food fight at her friends. It opens with the singer sitting at a table in a pristine, all white room with a blank canvas, and triggering an epic paint fight, things get crazy as the song evolves. Surrounded by friends, Foxes seems to be having a carefree, good time as she gives a classy, yet sexy, performance and delivers the lyrics to her song in front of the camera before a desert scene is shown to end the visual on a high note. The concept fits the joyous message of the song perfectly.

English singer-songwriter Foxes, the musical project of Louisa Rose Allen, has quickly escalated. Foxes signed with RCA Records off the strength of her "Warrior" EP, an album that was released by Neon Gold, a label that's nearly indie-pop royalty at this point. Foxes recently released a brand-new slick music video for catchy new debut U.S. single "Youth," will be available on her upcoming "Youth" EP, due out on October 8. It's a cool clip, which sees the 24-year-old singer prances around in Mickey Mouse ears and engages in plenty of playing, and getting into Hipstervision mode that speaks to the youthfulness of the track.
If indie-pop singer Foxes sounds familiar to you, perhaps it's because you literally couldn't escape her vocals this summer on Zedd's EDM smash "Clarity." Or maybe you'll remember her from Fall Out Boy's "Just One Yesterday" or Rudimental's "Right Here"? It were also featured in "Gossip Girl." The track has been handled by Le Youth, aka Wes James, whose recent Cassie-sampling COOL single reached the UK Top 30. For "Youth," he's decided to strip out the pummeling drums and ghostly synths and replace it all with layers of stuttering, 80s-tinged electropop riffs, while Foxes' original vocal gets pitched and manipulated to become completely unrecognizable.
Lately, however, the fringed U.K. songstress has been striking out on her own. With a US Top 10 single under her belt, Foxes is finally having her moment and new-ish single "Youth" should help it along nicely. But don't let the juvenile, carefree feel of this video fool you, Foxes has the vocal maturity and range of a classically trained singer. The video was directed by James Copeman who captures the urgent, rebellious lyric of Foxes' electro anthem and stages the wide-eyed songstress in a black-and-white environment before the intro gives way to a vivid montage celebrating the spirit of youth with colourful imagery of bonfire parties, eye-catching costumes and a pair of Mickey Mouse ears.
The suitably stylized new video features Foxes being just that: young. The "Artist To Watch" VMA nominee kicks things off by hanging out in a black-and-white office space, but there's nothing dull or drab about her. Turns out the nine-to-five world just isn't for Foxes, so she decides to spend the rest of "Youth" wreaking havoc with her friends. Throughout the day (and night), Foxes and her "forever young" cast of characters run through the streets laughing, hanging out in abandoned parking lots, bathing in public, wearing Mickey Mouse ears, dancing around a bonfire. "Don't tell me our youth is running out," sings Foxes.