New Music: Finn Foxell – Leaders

You can hear the effervescence of The Clash, IDLES, and Sleaford Mods percolate through every minute of Leaders by Finn Foxell. Its strong punk meets-indie sound with a grime-oriented aesthetic allows the song to flow with righteous anger. Leaders captures the zeitgeist of modern Britain, angry and insightful, as people wait for something – anything – good to happen.

Says Finn about Leaders, “The song when making it I didn’t have any political motive, but right now it feels like something needs to be said and the chaos of this record gave me room for that, to show the lack of faith in our leaders and government, from the eyes of my generation at least. There’s a lot of frustration right now from all corners of our society except the top, they seem to just fuck about like bored spoilt kids whilst we all decline.”

He adds, “Boris (Johnson) actually stepped down a couple of months after but that’s why it’s called Leaders, plural, whoever follows him will just become another trickster with a mask on… and they all judge us. This song reflects the general lack of faith in our political system, it’s a house of clowns in my eyes, tricky because they’re dangerous ones.”

Leaders is out now and comes in advance of Foxell’s What’s Your Poison tour. The tour starts in Glasgow this October, finishing up in London on the 5th of November. You can stream Leaders on Spotify and Apple Music – get more listening and download options on Foxell’s Twitter and Facebook feeds.