Foxy Leopard is a cinematic alt-country project out of Quebec, Canada, led by a former ’90s dance club DJ whose musical instincts have taken a very different turn later in life. The project blends deeply human storytelling with AI-assisted composition, built around resonator guitar, sparse touches of harmonica and banjo, and intimate, minimalist production. Rather than chasing war stories or political figures, Foxy Leopard has built an ongoing concept album called Before around the last uneasy months leading up to the American Civil War, told entirely through the eyes of ordinary people rather than generals or battlefields.
We Keep Walkin’
Released June 12, 2026, “We Keep Walkin'” leans on Americana and folk-country instrumentation, with that same AI-assisted layer running underneath, giving the track a texture that feels both old-fashioned and a little out of time. That off-kilter warmth ends up suiting the subject matter perfectly.
Underneath the title’s surface optimism is something closer to willful blindness. Instead of showing the war arriving through speeches or headlines, the song stays at ground level with people who just keep doing what they’ve always done, work, chores, small talk, because stopping to really look at what’s happening feels like more than anyone can handle. Say the phrase enough times and it stops sounding like grit and starts sounding like people talking themselves out of noticing.
The band leans into that unease instrumentally too. The rhythm section stays locked into a plain, unbroken walking pace, almost metronomic, like nobody’s allowed to break stride, while the guitar keeps things melodically warm on top, a deliberate mismatch between a comforting surface and a genuinely uneasy undercurrent. Foxy Leopard sings it fairly plainly for most of the track before letting real strain creep into the delivery toward the end, as if the character singing it is starting to hear themselves for the first time.
Context from the rest of the Before album sharpens all of this. “We Keep Walkin'” sits directly ahead of the record’s finale, “When It Falls Apart,” so it plays as the last calm stretch before everything comes undone, and that placement changes how the chorus lands on a second or third listen. What sounded like resolve the first time through starts to sound like a whole town agreeing, without ever saying so out loud, not to ask the obvious question. By staying with regular people instead of the usual cast of generals and dates, the song makes a quieter but bigger point: big historical turns rarely announce themselves, they get built one unremarkable day at a time by people who just kept walking.
Final Thoughts
“We Keep Walkin'” is a quietly devastating piece of songwriting, one that rewards repeat listens as its layers keep revealing themselves, and it’s a strong entry point into a concept album that clearly has more to say.
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