“Foxygen return with yet more eclectic, classic pop”
“Before releasing their last album, 2014’s sprawling 24-song exercise in sloppy rock theatre ‘…And Star Power’, Foxygen keyboardist Jonathan Rado hadn’t time for standard- length records. “We just didn’t want to make an eight-song record; here’s more songs,” he told DIY magazine. Well, almost three years later, just look what the Californian so-and-sos (completed by singer Sam France, famed for t”
“Shape-shifting singer-songwriters Sam France and Jonathan Rado make a triumphant return as Foxygen to deliver their most lavishly orchestrated set of songs yet.”
“Though Hang marks Foxygen's fourth public LP (masterminds Jonathan Rado and Sam France have been recording under that moniker since their high school days), it's the first they've made in a proper studio. To mark the occasion — and in true Foxygen style —they went all out. Recorded in a vintage L.A. studio onto two-inch analog tape, the eight-song album harkens back to the glitz and glamour of old”
“On their last album, Foxygen sounded like a band trying to survive. On their latest, they reach for the sky, making an audacious timpani crash of an album that satirizes its own grandiosity.”
“Listening to Foxygen can be a confusing experience. Over two sprawling albums and an EP Sam France and Jonathon Rado appropriated just about every trope in their cooler-than-thou record collection; Memphis Soul, 60s era Stones, Merseybeat, and shades of Bowie & Reed were all put to use. Whether they figured that fans wouldn’t be aware of the provenance of their inspiration, or just didn’t care abo”
