Foxygen - ...And Star Power
...And Star Power
Foxygen
Tiger Rating: 4.5 / 10
Experimental Throwback Pop
Not unlike MGMT, Foxygen creeped into less obscurity (they're yet to have a mainstream hit like 'Kids') from total leftfield, and cast a spell on many who heard their debut last year. Owning their Frankensound mash-up of inspiration, they expertly channeled T-Rex, The Beatles, The Beach Boys and occasionally the Bee Gees for something that was as strange as it was enjoyable. 'We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic' was absurd and sublime.
This is a silly, overdone sophomore unfortunately. 24 tracks and only four of them filler, this is an often dreary, pointless plod through some space canteen. It's like those martians from the bar in Star Wars Episode VI got drunk and high and made an album under the duress of some tone deaf Hutts.
OK it's not as bad as all that. It will just take INCREDIBLE discipline to sit through the entire thing and weed out the stand out tracks. And I resent them for making me do that.
Have fun and play around with your sound influences. That's awesome. And there is probably a lot of really cool recording techniques here ('You & I' literally sounds like it was recorded in 1973), but I'm not dedicated to this band enough yet to sit down for literally an hour and a half listening to ONE album. Someone please listen to it and tell me which songs I need to listen to. Please?
WVS
This is a silly, overdone sophomore unfortunately. 24 tracks and only four of them filler, this is an often dreary, pointless plod through some space canteen. It's like those martians from the bar in Star Wars Episode VI got drunk and high and made an album under the duress of some tone deaf Hutts.
OK it's not as bad as all that. It will just take INCREDIBLE discipline to sit through the entire thing and weed out the stand out tracks. And I resent them for making me do that.
Have fun and play around with your sound influences. That's awesome. And there is probably a lot of really cool recording techniques here ('You & I' literally sounds like it was recorded in 1973), but I'm not dedicated to this band enough yet to sit down for literally an hour and a half listening to ONE album. Someone please listen to it and tell me which songs I need to listen to. Please?
WVS
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