Winning at the Losing Game: Inside LittleFox’s ‘Sad Girl’
There was a time in Alison Jenkins' life when sorrow perched on her shoulder like an elegant, ill-mannered bird. She felt like the exclusive curator of some rare, iridescent sadness: love had slipped out the back door; friendships were shaking; work was like trying to walk uphill through water. It wasn't until she stood someplace brighter that she realized the great and ordinary truth: her broken heart wasn't an exotic species. Of course, in the thick of it, she knew she was "winning at the losing game," crowned queen of a private storm. And from that knowing came "Sad Girl," less lament than lantern.
And it comes from the world of LittleFox, a band that only seems to follow rules to foster a good excuse to joyfully shatter them. Fronted by wildly inventive Jenkins, LittleFox doesn't just dabble in genres so much as hurl them into each other with gleeful experimentation. Her voice moves like an extra instrument-half-breath, half-spell-pulled between the reckless freedom of Björk and Kate Bush's dreamy sideways tilt. Wrapped around her, banjos carry emotional baggage, pedal steel lines sigh like old ghosts, and chamber-folk swells lift it all into something strangely exquisite.
The recorded trail of LittleFox plots a sure evolution: Desire Lines in 2022, Ghost in This House in 2023, Vesuvius erupting into the world in 2024, and a trio of new singles set to arrive in late 2025 and early 2026. Each release reveals Jenkins' unmistakable songwriting hand-intimate, cinematic, and unafraid of emotional weather. But recordings are only half the tale. Onstage, LittleFox becomes a living creature, shapeshifting between solo whisper and nine-piece tempest, filling Vancouver haunts like the Heatley, the Painted Ship, the Sylvia Hotel, and Guilt & Co. with raw, glowing energy.
And now, with "Sad Girl," Jenkins extends a gentle but insistent invitation: come stand with her in the place where heartbreak turns communal. The song isn't a wallow; it's a signal flare for anyone convinced they're suffering in perfect isolation. LittleFox reminds listeners that sorrow is a crowded room, and no one sits in the corner alone. In Alison's own hope, "Sad Girl" becomes a rallying cry-an anthem for every person who's ever mistaken their tender human ache for a solitary universe.
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