About Jeffrey Foucault
“JEFFREY FOUCAULT IS A YOUNG MAN WITH AN OLD SOUL... CONTEMPORARY AND TIMELESS” The New York Times
Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. He cut his first album in the winter of 2000 and has gone on to become one of America’s leading singer/songwriters with a string of highly acclaimed albums to his name.
Long-time disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of song writing set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool.
Cinematic in scope and movement, Horse Latitudes, the stunning new album from Jeffrey Foucault was recorded in just three days in Los Angeles, seamlessly merges the ferocity of rock and the honesty of country behind the plaintive wonder in Foucault’s weathered voice. This is a cross-country collision of rock, country, and folk with equal grace on full-band ragers and whispered solo pieces, delivering a collection of songs that inhabit the borderlands of heartbreak and memory.
Combining the wide-open electricity of Neil Young with the brooding spaciousness of early Richard Buckner, Horse Latitudes shows Foucault in the fullness of his powers as a writer and producer, offering a compelling vision of modern American music.
UNCUT: “The music of Wisconsin native Foucault is the kind so many aspire to but never attain: beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection…”
