“It’s tough not to be completely enamoured from the first listen,” Wide Days wrote about Scottish singer-songwriter Indoor Foxes, born Martha Barr. She describes her indie rock as “a mix of Courtney Love and Paris Hilton—a bit glam, but very, very loud.”
For Martha, her alter ego Indoor Foxes is a way to showcase a bolder version of herself. “I almost idolise this half-character I have in ‘her”. It feels like wearing your favourite outrageous jacket or a really big pair of stompy boots when A move through the world as Indoor Foces,” the singer adds. The name itself is a playful riff on the influencer Feral Creatures—she replaced “feral” with “Indoor” and swapped “creatures” for her favorite animal, the “fox.”
Indoor Foxes brings a fresh girlhood perspective to the Scottish rock scene. In her lyrics, she explores the female experience and processes her own history. “I like to be able to rage at pain and not shy away from that. We get to be angry when we’re hurt, and we get to be afraid. I like addressing these perceived humiliations…I still feel a bit like a little girl on the inside a lot, making loud guitar-forward music gives me that freedom to be a truly angry young woman.”