Erin Fox and The Hounds bloom in dark new single "Flowers From The Funeral"

In their second song, "Flowers from the Funeral," Erin Fox and The Hounds' dark pop/rock orchestrations provide a heart-heavy and haunting reflection on loss and denial. The track is an emotional plummet into the denial stage of grief haunting but with a strange beauty in its vulnerability.

It's always been a hotbed of musical creativity, and Fox and The Hounds are among its most exciting voices. With "Flowers from the Funeral," they have created an intimate work, like rocking your lullabies to sleep, which is immediately ubiquitous. The song blooms into a cinema moment with sumptuous strings, ornate arrangements, and a melody that grabs you from the opening notes.

Erin's hypnotizing chamber-pop backing band, the Hounds, plays with a closeness that feels almost sacred. Their combination of classical instrumentation and modern storytelling creates lush emotional landscapes. In this song, the group conjures the ghostly silence of a wake, tinged with denial and painful nostalgia. It's the type of song that sticks around.

Erin Fox's voice is rich and honest, and it floats through the song like a whisper you can't quite put an ear to so much as feel in the marrow of your bones. Her performance embodies the numbness and surreal disorientation that can accompany loss. Rather than providing closure, she grants you the space to remain uncomfortable, grieve without answers, and remember without clarity.

This is a moment frozen in its own orb, one that encourages consideration and respects nuance. It's the quiet that falls when the door is shut, the smell of flowers when they're already beginning to die, the trace of a laugh you'll never hear again.

Sharing the stage with The War And Treaty and The Goo Goo Dolls and making a splash at festivals like The Philadelphia Folk Fest and MusikFest, The Hounds continue to demonstrate their power to captivate a crowd with not just skill but the truth of emotion.

"Flowers from the Funeral" is an honest guide for anyone in the fog of loss. And in that honesty, Erin Fox and The Hounds have made something quietly unforgettable.

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