Mad Foxes

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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.