FOXYGEN - Hang (Jagjaguwar) 2017
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For an album sharing its release date with Donald Trump’s inauguration, Foxygen’s newest effort is oddly fitting to a world where fact is consistently getting stranger than fiction. Engulfed in light – sometimes stage lights, sometimes LA sunshine – Hang is the perfect brand of theatrical folly America needs to counteract the growing shadow cast by its new presidency. Recorded with a 40-piece orchestra, it is an invigorating, beautifully composed homage to the maximalism and theatricality of 70’s glam rock that is as ostentatious as it is self-parodying. Unlike the 24 tracks of its predecessor …And Star Power, Hang presents a more cohesive vision in its 8 tracks while presenting Foxygen at their best; unapologetically flamboyant, a touch dramatic, and always fun.