Andy Shauf

Career

Andy Shauf began his recording career with two self-released albums in 2006 and 2007, then released Darker Days (2009) and Waiting for the Sun to Leave (2010) on Hopeless Records. In 2012 he independently released the EP Sam Jones Feeds His Demons, followed by the album The Bearer of Bad News. That album was re-released in 2015 through Tender Loving Empire and Party Damage Records, and its track "Wendell Walker" was shortlisted for the 2016 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.

Shauf signed with Arts & Crafts Productions in Canada and ANTI- internationally in 2015. His first release on those labels was the non-album single "Jenny Come Home," which became his breakthrough on Canadian radio, charting on both CBC Radio 2's Radio 2 Top 20 and CBC Radio 3. Through early 2016 he toured Europe as an opening act for the Lumineers, and he moved from Saskatchewan to Toronto in April that year. The Party was released in May 2016.

After some experimental recordings with a group of musicians, Shauf ended up playing almost all of the instruments on the album himself, with the exception of the string arrangements, which were written and performed by Colin Nealis. The album was a shortlisted finalist for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize and has since been noted by some as the first album to win Shauf widespread recognition. He toured throughout 2017 with a five-piece band. In 2018, Shauf released an album with D. A. Kissick, Avery Kissick and Dallas Bryson under the band name Foxwarren.

The self-titled album was released on 30 November 2018 and received a Juno Award nomination for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020. On 23 October 2019, Shauf announced that a new album, The Neon Skyline, would be released 24 January 2020. A single, "Things I Do", was released the same day. After the release, Barack Obama featured the title track on his 2020 summer playlist.

Commenting on this honor, Shauf stated, "It's cool to think that Obama, or the Obamas together, have listened to my music. It's a really nice feeling to think my music has gone that far."

On 24 September 2021, Shauf released the album Wilds, a collection of nine songs written and recorded at the same time as The Neon Skyline and described as a "companion piece" to it. On 10 February 2023, Shauf released Norm.

The concept album follows a stalker. The album was longlisted for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize. In May 2025, Foxwarren released the album 2.