Almost a month ago I got an email from John Foxx’s Bandcamp account touting his new single with Ade Fenton; Gary Numan’s aide de camp for the last decade or so. Naturally, when one learns of a new Foxx DL you go to Bandcamp and buy it. Which I did, but the current period has me flummoxed for the free time to actually unzip the files and load them into my Music app and transfer the release to my personal device to give it a critical listen during my long commute to work. Such that on this day I resorted to downloading the files to my work computer so that I might finally listen and share my thoughts on it! Drastic, I know!

As it transpires, the single is not exactly new. It was released in late 2023 as a perk for subscribers to The Quietus website, who always have time for Numan and Foxx! But the initial spark of the linkup was simply down to Foxx and Fenton sharing management with Steve Malins. Never underestimate the ability of a manager to put forces into play. All well and good, but what’s it like, you may ask?

John Foxx + Ade Fenton: A Million Times – UK – DL – [2025]

1. A Million Times 7:17
2. A Million Times [instrumental] 7:17

Hard crisp beats echoed down long corridors while distorted tremolo guitar vibrated throughout the soundfield. The synths were content to hum like electric pylons until the psychedelic vocals of Foxx appeared. Smeared with a slapback echo that panned hard left. At that point the widescreen, cinematic string patches appeared like a multitude of Mellotrons in the decidedly Arabic-vibed track.

The track neither advanced nor retreated as it preferred to offer a kind of static mantra as opposed to any progressions. As the rhythm track stopped and the synths had the last word in the fading coda. This was a cut that immediately brought to mind the collaboration with The Soft Moon on the title track to 2012’s “Evidence.” A deep plunge into techno-psychedelia that has long been a thread in the tapestry of the John Foxx oeuvre. Perhaps a future bonus track for the DLX RM of his “Metadelic” collection. See what you think.

It can be all yours for a mere £1.50. Given that Foxx seems to be all about the piano these days, those who require synths from man would do well to pick up this DL single as his upcoming album will not slake that thirst. DJ hit that button!

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