Drawing us in with a hummed vocalization and an Americana guitar riff, Foxy Leopard opens We Keep Walking with an emotive holler of non-lexical vocables to express a raw sensibility. The opus expands into a dynamic and high octane Bluegrass energy with tribal punctuation.
We love the journey that Foxy Leopard takes us on with poetic prowess and situational prose about a seminal moment. In essence, We Keep Walking serves as an empowering message about the quiet moments before major change.
Foxy Leopard intends to show how ordinary people can keep moving forwards without questioning where they are headed. The narrative is set in the months before the American Civil War, and poignantly explores how fear, routine and group thinking can lead communities toward conflict.
In a sense, it feels super zeitgeist, and we can imagine We Keep Walking being featured in a film like One Battle After Another, or Purple Hearts. On a philosophical niveau, it I encourages us to reflect on how history is often shaped by everyday people who push on without always realizing the consequences.
Foxy Leopard shares, “History often changes not through a single dramatic event, but through countless ordinary people taking one more step because everyone else already has.” He adds, “The lyrics that shape each story, and, when they exist, the scenes that reveal their deeper meaning. Some explanations run long, but if you want to feel the soul of these songs, follow the path…the emotion is waiting.”
We could also see the song in films like Cold Mountain, Lincoln and The Free State of Jones. It’s brilliant songwriting again from the Canadian rising artist, and we appreciate the quality of the output and the conscious and intentional energy that manifest with this track and Foxy Leopard‘s wider body of work, including the entirety of his album, Before.