Showcasing an imaginative range and combination of instruments and chillingly beautiful harmonies, Austin Basham's debut album, offers a glimpse into the earnestness and candor of a twenty-something's navigation of life, love, and loss through intricately arranged strata of sound.  

Like other self-described folk artists, many of Little Foxes’ tracks feature the banjo, including the title track, a quixotic reverie of desire and hope, and a cover of “Brown Trout Blues,” a nod to one of Basham’s greatest influences, Johnny Flynn. “Ignis Fatuus” fuses piano and trumpet, inspiring visions of meadows and rolling hills in days of yore.

 

Little Foxes is modern-day folklore--the allusions to ages past and cries of conviction in "Oh!," the troubadour-esque "Lost at Sea" and "Phoenix & the Turtle," an Aesopian farewell, to echo an underlying, pastoral thread that runs through the album's start and finish. 

 

These are the humble musings that narrate the sojourn that Basham has taken in recent years, both into artistry and adulthood.