A few months after Old Songs, Foxing released two split singles on the same day: February 4, 2013. Foxing are also not really an emo band, but the emo scene was the first community to embrace them, and The Albatross is the closest they’ve ever come to a straight-up emo album. At the same time, this album is full of moments that hint at the artsier records Foxing would release later on. Foxing is the kind of raw, discordant, alienating album that would be most bands’ black sheep album, but for Foxing was the most widely-loved album they’d released in years. And even when Foxing do screamo on this album, they do it in the ambitiously melodic way that they do everything else.