The stories behind every release
Learn all about the inspirations for the music you enjoy, and what they really mean. In order of release.
Fox Den Vol.2
Fox Den Vol.2 is the culmination of the 2026 summer music raffle. Four slots on the EP were raffled off to four fans, who in turn submitted an original character designed by them along with a little about themselves. Each song was written uniquely for each winner. The final track in the EP is a mash up of the other four, bringing a sense of unity to round out the album.
When You Tell a Lie
(Когда Ты Врешь)
As rapper NF once defined success: "It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation." Part English part Russian, When You Tell a Lie is an international collaboration, featuring Russian rap and k-pop group DELUSiON.
Barely Sleeping
I have so much trouble sleeping. My mind races; over anxieties and worrires, over mistakes and regrets, over nothing at all; and I cant stop it. So, I stay up, and write music until I someties fall asleep there. Barely sleeping is a dark club piece inspired by Brazilian underground electronic, whuch tells the tale of all those sleepless nights of its conception.
beautiful, hand-painted cover art by kmcritterart.
Remeber
Awhile back, Faux Pas Fox met fellow composer Beagle 36 through various social channels. Finding the artists shared many of the same interests and values, both decided to work together on a project. However, both composers had very different styles, and this project took great difficulty, but was well worth it in the end. The symphonic electronic hybrid, the mixing of old and new, gives the work a fresh, unprecidented feel.
Soaring
As a fan-devised challenge, Faux Pas Fox created and produced an entire origional song in the period of a 3.5 hour flight from Minniapolis, MN to Seattle, WA. There were three essential rules fans devised for this endeavor:
1) the song must be fully produced from departure to landing.
2) the song must include audio recorded on the plane
3) after completion, Faux Pas Fox must turn to the person next to him and ask them to rate it.
New Adventure
Awhile back, Faux Pas Fox met fellow composer Beagle 36 through various social channels. Finding the artists shared many of the same interests and values, both decided to work together on a project. However, both composers had very different styles, and this project took great difficulty, but was well worth it in the end. The symphonic electronic hybrid, the mixing of old and new, gives the work a fresh, unprecidented feel.
Vice
With its repetitive motif, falling melody, and clinking, coin-like quality, "Vice" is meant to portray the very real destructiveness of gambling addiction. This Vice is so prevalent among the youth of today, and its poison ruins so many lives so fast.
Salvation - Reproduced
A remastered and reproduced version of "Salvation" from the album"Story," this version is bigger than before, containing more voices and protrayed with more power.
March on Brother
March on Brother is an experimental, cintematic work, meant to be experineced as much listened too. This worked was inspired by the many trials that Christians are promised in this world, both spiritual and physical. As the harrowing melody plays, many sounds of war cut through, bringing this fight to life; from crisp marching and rifles chambering to echoing gunshot and the roar of a fighter jet. Keep up the good fight, brother; march on.
How I Try
What I am and what I want to be are two separate things; it's as if two beings inhabit the same body, one desires to be righteous while the forces the righteous to be anything but. for as the apostle Paul put it, "I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing." Sometimes I can get a glimpse of hope when I have a small victory, but that quickly fades away.
Fox Den
Fox Den is the culmination of the 2025 summer music raffle. Four slots on the EP were raffled off to four fans, who in turn submitted an original character designed by them along with a little about themselves. Each song was written uniquely for each winner. The final track in the EP is a mash up of the other four, bringing a sense of unity to round out the album.
Waiting
Waiting is a small, Minimalistic composition inspired by and written while waiting for laundry. Listen as the repeating bell melody slowly falls out of sync creating complex textures and rich harmony. At the time, Faux Pas Fox had just completed a small (no pun intended) unit on minimalism in his Music Theory IV class and was eager to try his hand. Just feeling the need to write, he produced the entire song in just under 6 hours. Though, he probably should not have stayed up till 6 am on a school night!
Lost Environments
Lost Environments is a collection of five songs, each meant to suggest the image of a place forgotten by time. From the concept of a post-apocalyptic cityscpe to a peaceful, forgotten field, these vivid, cintemaatic and unconventional songs bring forth powerful images.
Aqua-Frost // Adventure Dawg
Aqua-Frost // Adventure Dawg is a two song release, created as a gift for a christan couple and content producers. a Year or so before the release, Faux Pas Fox heard them speak on what it means to be in the world but not of it, and he was inspired to write music for them after heard they both competed in dance competitions.
Heavensent
Heavensent was written for a lovely young midwestern couple Ari and Winter, winners of the 2024 fan music raffle. The song is about their strong bond together, and to encourage them in their walk with Christ.
Blizzard
Blizzard was indpired by the majesty and power of Minnesota winter storms. Faux Pas Fox wanted to create a work of music that was just beautiful. Then, he had an idea. After production and before distribution, he sent the song, unnamed and with no imagery, to as many people as would recieve it, and asked them to state what it made them think of. Collecting all the answers, he compiled all the results of his music experiment and published a video which can be viewed here!
Oddity: An Origin
While not the first album Faux Pas Fox published, Oddity: An Origin was the first album he produced. During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, a 16-year-old musician pieced together a collection of songs on his old Iphone 6SE, which is featured on the cover art. Each song embodies an idea he pondered, including gratefulness for all those who poured into his life and supported him, a gratefulness which now pours out to you as a listener.
Story
Story is the most experimental album by Faux Pas Fox and the most personal for him. This eleven song work tells the story of despair over the fallenness and imperfections of the world, the longing for what cannot be achieved, and the Truth and peace only found in Christ.
Why Can't I Stop
Why Can't I Stop is a highly experimental and Avant-Garde work, built off one singular, mutated audio track of an improvised solo on an out-of-tune piano. The peice is inspired by man's inability to stop sinning. Inside each person is a monster. many don't know it, they are blind to it, justifying themselves. But for those that can see it, it's a curse. Man cannot attain perfection on earth and the song captures the agony and the sound of ripping conscience and inter toil.
Teigan Hall
Teigen Hall was a fun little piece made for Faux Pas Fox's freshman college dorm. Every year, his college has inter-dorm competitions, and Teigen Hall wanted to start things with a bang by marching into the games with hard-hitting battle music. Faux Pas Fox stands front and center, with his fellow teamates around him, blending into the darkness. Don't stair cases just make awsome pictures?
Rapid Deployment
Rapid Deployment was a collaboration between Faux Pas Fox and local producer and childhood friend KingKoa. As kids, both dreamed of publishing an album of origional music. Sending shared Garage Band files bak and forth, they created this little work over a period of months, eventually mastering the EP in Logic Pro X. Each song is dedicated to a different brach of the armed forces; Special Forces, Armored Cavalry, and the Infantry respectively. Their official public debut was played at the Tacoma Airsoft Center to a crowd of battling young adults. the picture in the album art was taken right outside the center after six straight hours of games.
The People Downstairs
The People downstairs was a fun little contrast to Faux Pas fox's usual work. His closest friends were his cousins, but he would be heading off to college soon. So, to show his appreciation for their years of friendship, he made a song dedicated to the personality and interests of each one. As for the name, when they were young and would go to family events, all the kids were herded into the basement, where they would play for hours. Over time, they started refering to themsleves as "The People Downstairs."
Songs of 2021
2021, a dark year, one that marks the deepest pit in Faux Pas Fox's struggles. This album breaths life into the inner workings of the young artist's mind, containing some of his most raw work. Each song presents a different pondering or lingering, poisonous thought. But suprisingly, the work does not end with sorrow, but a joyous declaration of God's care and providance; that no matter how far a parson has fallen, God is willing and able to pick them back up. In the darkest hells and deepest of despair, God can be found even there. In the harshest of mental isolation, sometimes all you can do is pray, and God hears you.
Crossroads
As the pilot release for the young artist, Crossroads marked a significant milestone in Faux Pas Faux's music career. But deeper themes run through the unconventional music. The listener is presented with two outlooks at life: hope and despair. We hear each option in the first two songs. As the songs progress, we fall farther into despair, being dragged down with the heaviness of the world. But all is not lost, for a glimpse we are presented with "Hope", bringing a sense of change and a new mood with it. But all feels temporary, as dark reality sets back in. Joy seems so hard to achive in a dark world, but a life of joy does not come easy, and must be fought for, a fight against our struggles and weakneses in this world that pull us down. Finally, after this journey, seeing both paths of the crossroads, we are called to make a choice. Which path will you go down?