If your serotonin levels need a jolt and your playlist could use a kick of emotional drum & bass, Fox Stevenson has you covered. The UK indie-electronic trailblazer just dropped his latest single “Memories,” and it’s another gut-punch wrapped in glitter from his forthcoming sophomore album which is coming out June 27 on UKF’s Pilot imprint.

“Memories” hits like a bottle rocket to the chest with soaring vocals, punchy synths, a little pop-punk angst, and Stevenson’s signature full-send emotional honesty. It’s built for late-night headphones and festival stages alike. And like every track on the new album, it’s fully DIY: written, produced, sung, and mastered by Fox himself. Because of course it is.

The single lands ahead of a stacked U.S. tour, which includes a stop right here in Colorado at the Marquis Theater on May 5. It’s part of a coast-to-coast run through iconic rooms like Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg, LA’s Troubadour, and Vancouver’s Red Room. If you haven’t caught Fox Stevenson live, this is your moment. Whether it’s just him or the full Fox Stevenson Live band (with guitar, drums, and vocals), the shows are as high-octane and hyper-melodic as his records.


The new album promises to be Fox’s biggest statement yet. The album explores themes of self-image, anxiety, obsession, and the often hilarious mess of being a human in the digital age. Built from acoustic demos that got reimagined into explosive electronic arrangements, the record spans the full spectrum of emotion without ever taking itself too seriously.

Fox has been doing this longer than most artists on your playlist and still feels like he’s just getting started. With over 800K monthly Spotify listeners, a rabid Twitch/Discord community, and a steady stream of releases on Monstercat, Liquicity, Spinnin’, and Pilot, his blend of indie grit and rave-ready production continues to win hearts and smash dance floors around the globe.

Denver don’t miss this one. And don’t sleep on Fox’s new album. It’s shaping up to be one of the year’s most thoughtful (and fun-as-hell) electronic records. We had a chance to speak with Fox Stevenson ahead of his upcoming Denver show and album release. Check out our conversation below!

[Rooster]: You wrote, produced, sang, and mastered your upcoming album entirely yourself. What does total creative control feel like—freedom or pressure (or both)?

[Fox Stevenson]: It sometimes feels like pressure but I wouldn’t change it. I think something really beautiful happens when you’re able to control the push and pull between the production, composition and performance of music like this, if you take a leftwards turn in the songwriting or have an idea for the composition you can bring everything else along with it, and if all of that idea comes from the same person then the spirit of that thing is never mistranslated. especially on this album I’ve been doing my best to make sure I feel strongly what it is I want to do, if I hold onto that feeling when I’m choosing a drum-sound or a lyric, then they all come from the same centre and I’m able (hopefully) to realise the concept I have in mind, the only thing holding that back would be my own ability to execute

You’ve described your songs as “acoustic sketches turned full-throttle productions.” What’s that process like? Is there a moment where you know a track’s going to blow up?

The first steps of this album was to record every song as an acoustic demo with just a guitar and my voice, the rationale with that was to make sure that I wrote a song that I loved at its most basic, from there the intention was to do everything else to serve that song, that way, even if I get stuck in production hell and I’m having to listen to it over and over, I need only refer to what it was I liked about the song in the first place

You’re blending pop-punk DNA with drum & bass, indie, and more on this record. How do you decide what sonic world a song lives in—or do they all just hang out together in your brain?

I’ve always approached my influences very granularly. For the longest time I always felt like there were things that I would change about my favourite music from, a completely self-indulgent self pleasing front, perhaps even arrogantly? 

What I mean to say is that there are things I love about pop punk , drum n bass, pop, 90s adult contemporary or whatever, but I try to isolate the pieces that make my ears happy and then only take those things forward. 

Generally speaking, the sonic character of a track is something I don’t try to force, all I ever try to do is make something that makes my own ears happy, if it does then I’m being true to my own taste and if I’m able to stay the course with that then it’s in my opinion completely honest, I won’t often try to “method act” for a track 

What’s the most unhinged thing you’ve seen at one of your live shows?

I don’t think we’ve got any mind blowing stories in that regard. There was one time Spider-Man came to our show and was in the front row and my shoelace came untied and Spider-Man tied my shoelaces. That was a career highlight.

Speaking of live shows, your U.S. tour hits iconic venues like Brooklyn’s Music Hall and Denver’s Marquis Theater—what can fans expect from the live experience this time around?

I think at the heart of our performances is a contrast between loud (and at times abrasive?) dance music and my more vulnerable moments in the songwriting, I don’t think that translates in the same way when I just played the recorded song in a DJ set, but I feel it’s heightened when I’m able to stand there and sing the song as I mean and then have it explode into loud energetic bullshit. So, I think that’s what people can expect.

You’ve got an incredibly loyal online community—Twitch, Discord, all of it. How does that connection with fans shape your creative process?

I never know exactly how much that shaped my creative process. I try not to let it, especially as any communities most loyal supporters are generally speaking a vocal minority. Of course I care about their opinions and they help me reflect, because on the whole I think they understand what I’m trying to do, but for the entirety of my career I’ve been very creatively selfish and I think that’s an important constant in my music. Luckily, I think the thing that works best is when I’m just making whatever I feel like!

You’ve been in this game for a while now. What’s something you’d tell 2010 Fox Stevenson if you had 30 seconds to time-travel?

I think I would try to tell him about certain places to exercise more restraint, partially in the way I used to sing, partially in the way I used to produce but honestly, I don’t think he’d hear that,  i think he’d think I was full of shit hahaha