Songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Jenner Fox has recorded pastoral lo-fi folk in the realm of Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Callahan for years now, yet while he has yet to be nabbed by the prestigious Drag City label- perhaps his new album The Moon That Moves The Sea (due out 2/23/24) with fellow creative voice Jeremy Elliott shall raise notireity. Fox sings with a quiet strength that is immediately reminiscent of Tim Buckley, yet there is also a bountiful energy that permeates his work, where each song follows a distinct creative path of confessional anthems.
“The idea for the album, if pinned on a map, was the green room at Club Passim in Boston when we were warming up for a show and I was teaching Jeremy “Steady” for the first time. He listened to a verse and chorus and then played this interlocking harmonized part (the same one you hear on the record), and I think we both just sort of started cracking up. We ran it once more and then decided to open the show with “Steady.” The song continued to be our opener for the next year of shows. It felt like we had stumbled on a sound, a tightrope act of continually trying to blur our instruments into one and then let them focus apart again, a way of intent listening,” says Fox about the birth of The Moon That Moves The Sea
Recorded nine months later among the cedars, rain, and golden retrievers of Bell Creek Studio in Bellingham, WA, these ten songs were performed live in real-time – no overdubs, no underdubs, four days sitting across from each other surrounded by acoustic guitars and cups of tea, recreating a bit of that green room in Boston.
Glide is premiering this stunning album in full- one that should make many a sleeper best of 2024 list. Check it out in full before its Friday release date.
