While not a complete renunciation of their 2018 eponymous debut, the second album by Foxwarren – singer/songwriter Andy Shauf’s band with friends from college – represents a surprising shift in approach. Whereas the debut consisted of a trippy, pastoral indie rock, the follow-up, titled 2, was put together by Shauf after bandmembers, located across four Canadian provinces, collected song ideas and musical fragments in a shared folder. Citing musicians like MF Doom as inspirations, Shauf plugged these ideas and others into a sampler and, along with field recordings and movie clips featuring dialog and score material by the likes of Max Steiner, pieced together, hip-hop style, a primarily melodic sequel that plays a lot like a rap-era mixtape.

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