Will Fox - Which Way (2019)

There’s a lightness to the touch of Will Fox’s album, Which Way. Acoustic songs whose musical focus leans to the farthest aspects of tenderness; the ten tracks in the sequence sometimes appear to glance over a subject, when they really swim to the center. There is the sense of water colors; depth, frailty, and a softness to the light. All these things are true.

However, like water colors – when left to swirl and spill and drip – there is a certain surrealism to the palette of Will Fox. These are not your typical singer-songwriter elements. Broad passages pass without a definite sense of perspective. There’s a misty otherness as Will Fox pursues his subjects with a kind of spiritual enquiry. But wait, in this case the word ‘spiritual’ is not a dirty one. Fox removes the grandeur of the things which leave him in awe – he climbs into the intimate truths. It’s here, in tight proximity, that he turns questions over in front of us.