Foxing at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (04 March 2016)

Adjy

The evening (well, more like late afternoon) started off with North Carolina’s Adjy. The band is centered around singer (and composer) Christoper Noyes, who sang songs from their forthcoming LP. You can currently check out a “Prelude” via his latest release Another Flammarion Woodcut (Broken Circle Records).

Tancred

According to Tancred (Jess Abbott), this was the first time she’s playing in a full band. She said that the last time she was in town (with Into It. Over It. in 2014) she played her songs by herself and it was awkward and uncomfortable.



The band actually started a little later than advertised, but given the fact that it took them about 20 minutes to get going (including a mini-soundcheck), it was still pretty impressive.



A little backstory on Jess Abbott, who mentioned on stage that she lived in Minneapolis for five years and does not miss the snow/cold (she currently resides in California). In fact, she’s downright disappointed that it was so cold (and snowing) on the night that she was back in town. Her connection to Minneapolis is that she is the guitarist for Now, Now (fka Now, Now Every Children). We’ve seen the band on and off from 2010 to 2013 and mentioned Jess almost every time!



Anyway, Tancred is Abbott’s solo project, and we liked what we heard live. She sounded a little like Veruca Salt and Paramore … and it probably helped that her forthcoming Polyvinyl album Out of the Garden was produced by Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Anna Waronker (That Dog).



Since the record isn’t out yet, I had trouble figuring out the setlist, but, for sure, midway into her set she played the single “Bed Case” (from her white limited 7”).

Lymbyc Systym

Lymbyc Systym took absolutely no time in starting their set. After all, it’s just two brothers (Jared and Michael Bell) on drums and keys.
The instrumental band was probably the most interesting choice on the bill. They sounded nothing like any of the other bands, and the audience wasn’t quite sure what to make of them… but pretty soon, would embrace the duo by shouting out “You guys rock!” and bopping their heads in approval.



The only song I could identify was the title track “Split Stones”, taken from their latest Split Stones.

Setlist

St Louis’ Foxing (singer Conor Murphy, bassist Josh Coll, guitarist Ricky Sampson, guitarist Eric Hudson, violinist Emma Tiemann, and drummer Jon Hellwig) took the stage at 7:30pm with their personal stage lighting from the ground floor.



As you can see from their setlist, “Weave” was cross-off in favor of playing “Redwoods” live. The set is a pretty good mix of their two released albums The Albatross and Dealer.



While some people described the band as emo, they also have their chamer/folksy-side to them, that is whenever touring member Emma Tiemann would play violin or when singer Conor Murphy would take out his trumpet.



Based on the strong local youth support for this band, we’re pretty sure that they’ll be doing more headlining shows… it’s simply incredible that this is the first tour that they are playing last.