...And Star Power [LP]

by Foxygen

Overview

Sam France and Jonathan Rado took Foxygen from being their high-school recording project to capturing the attention of the independent music community at large with stellar albums that blended multiple classic rock & roll reference points into catchy collage-minded tunes. Their 2013 effort We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic saw the band at the peak of its powers, channeling (or directly borrowing from) Dylan, Jagger, Bowie, Reed, and dozens of other rock innovators but somehow avoiding coming off as sheer derivation through inspired songwriting, carefully groomed presentation, and an unnameable charm. With follow-up ...And Star Power, Foxygen expand outward from their concentrated songwriting style, offering up a stuffed double album that zips from murky FM radio rock to bristling punk and back to cosmic balladry over its 24 tracks and 82-minute playing time. First single and standout track "How Can You Really" taps into the same late-night confessional feel of Todd Rundgren's '70s hits, moving along breezily with a choir of perky background singers, horn sections, and the hookiest chorus of the album. Sludgier but still catchy are soft rock ballad "Coulda Been My Love" and "Cosmic Vibrations," a tune that shifts from a burst of "White Light/White Heat" noise into a morphine-addled reworking of Bob Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland." The album switches gears after its first quarter, offering more and more interludes of tweaky punk and wandering jams between its more traditional songs. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	10/14/2014
Label:	Jagjaguwar
UPC:	0656605225210
Rank:	54523

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Star Power Airlines
2. How Can You Really
3. Coulda Been My Love
4. Cosmic Vibrations
5. You & I
6. Star Power I: Overture
7. Star Power II: Star Power Nite
8. Star Power III: What Are We Good For
9. Star Power IV: Ooh Ooh
10. I Don't Have Anything/The Gate
11. Mattress Warehouse
12. 666

Disc 2

13. Flowers
14. Wally's Farm
15. Cannibal Holocaust
16. Hot Summer
17. Cold Winter/Freedom
18. Can't Contextualize My Mind
19. Brooklyn Police Station
20. The Game
21. Freedom II
22. Talk
23. Everyone Needs Love
24. Hang

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Foxygen   Primary Artist
Of Montreal   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Lou Breeze   Primary Artist
Steven Drozd   Drums
The Flaming Lips   Featured Artist
Jackie Cohen   Piano,Sitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Donald D   Featured Artist
Wayne Coyne   Vocals (Background)
Gnome   Featured Artist
Tim Presley   Bass,Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Shaun Fleming   Drums,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
White Fence   Featured Artist
Bleached   Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Sam France   Guitar,Drums (Bass)
Matt Pulos   Guitar
Andrew Nisenberg   Guitar,Fender Rhodes
Austin Kearns   Voices
Bennett Lewis   Guitar,Soloist
Danny Lacy   Sampling
Erie Deines   Voices
Evan Laffler   Voices
Jared Walker   Guitar,Soloist
Joe Hein   Guitar
Justin Nijssen   Bass
Speedier Freakz   Featured Artist
Wally Masterson   Voices,Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Steven Drozd   Soundscape
Kevin Barnes   Monologue
Drew Brown   Mixing
Of Montreal   Background Noise
David Ives   Mastering
Foxygen   Producer
Sam France   Composer
Jonathan Rado   Composer
Davey Jewell   Overdub Engineer
Patrick Haight   Mixing,Synthesizer Engineer
Cara Robbins   Photography
Lou Breeze   Composer
Nate Uteseh   Lettering