ARTICLE: On the Chance Encounters That Form Our Musical Tastes

A reflection on Foxwarren’s 2025 album, 2.

July 23, 2025 Writing

I wrote this for Kevin Alexander’s wonderful music Substack, On Repeat Records. It tells the story of how I met Andy Shauf as a teen.

There is a companion piece to this one on my newsletter here.

While working on these essays I made a remix of one of my favourite songs from the Foxwarren album, which I’ll share below.

“On the Chance Encounters That Form Our Musical Tastes.” On Repeat Records, July 23, 2025.

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