Mad Foxes

In the organizer's words:

Following the explosive Ashamed, a striking appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show and KEXP, the dazzling post-punk of Mad Foxes is coming back with their third album, Inner Battles.

When Shame, Fontaines D.C and Metz lovers try to develop new sounds and sonorities, it results in an astonishing and fulfilling album. Mad Foxes then induces the meeting of Noise and Pop - daring to marry punk and 80's kitsch - as if Elton John was about to go and have a coffee with Joe Talbot.

Inner Battles is the result of an introspective and intense creative process. The band questions many emotions flooding through their lives, their relationships, tackling mental health in its most intimate and yet universal essence.

Mad Foxes allows a visceral need to express and share deep chaotic feelings to exist, while trying to find ways to get out of them, out of that internal struggle, and let hope and light irradiate.

Inner Battles was recorded by Christophe Hogommat between January and March 2023 near Nantes (France).

Christophe and the band already worked together on the previous two albums. Their longtime friendship set up ideal recording conditions, allowing the most honest narrative frame for the album to emerge.

The album mixing was given to Joris Saïdani, drummer in Birds in Row and Fragments, sound engineer working with many french projects : BOPS, Simone d'Opale, Middle Child. His fresh glance on the recording and his sharp sense of musicality contributed to offer to Inner Battles a radical turn, faithful to the will of both Mad Foxes and Joris to merge pop and noise into a coherent album.

The mastering of the album was made by Thibault Chaumont, a wonderful sound engineer who has worked with Igorrr, Lana Del Rey and It It Anita. He then knew how to apply the perfect final touch on this record.