Due for release on Friday, the stunning debut full-length by Black Foxxes is streaming in full courtesy of The Independent.
The cathartic record focuses in part on vocalist and guitarist Mark Holley’s battles with anxiety and crohn’s disease. “I think half the problem is that most people aren’t willing to talk about it,” he tells The Independent. “I decided halfway through writing this record that I was going to be completely open about all my experiences.”
“I have alopecia because of how intense my stress and anxiety levels get,” Holley continues. “I’ve woken up in the morning and peeled whole clumps of hair out; when things like that happen, it’s hard not to say ‘I’m just going to go home!’ I love music but sometimes I ask, what is it worth? Is it really worth someone essentially taking 25 years off their life just for the sake of playing a few shows? But then something always keeps bringing me back, I don’t know what it is, I don’t know why I keep doing it because I really shouldn’t!”
Stream ‘I’m Not Well’ in full over on The Independent.
Read our thoughts on the record in our review.