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...And Star Power

Foxygen

...And Star Power

The California psych pop duo's fourth album features 24 tracks and centres around the four part Star Power Suite

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Jagjaguwar
UK Release date
13/10/2014
US Release date
14/10/2014
  1. 9.0 |   The Music

    Encapsulates the maturing genius of Foxygen
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  2. 8.8 |   Paste Magazine

    The record is indulgent, unhinged, sprawling, funny and sometimes spookily great?all adjectives most observers ought not to be so surprised about
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  3. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Sit back, toke up, and just go with it
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  4. 8.0 |   DIY

    Dips both hands into the past and then reaches for the stars of the future, grabbing the galaxy by its ears and hearts
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  5. 8.0 |   The 405

    An amazingly bittersweet journey that will linger with you way after your turntable has stopped spinning
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Their star power indeed might be largely borrowed but they wear it well. Print edition only

  7. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    The album is full of all kinds of ideas, some magnificent, some raw, but always ideas showing a band looking for new ways to express themselves
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  8. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Their unapologetically backwards-looking smash'n'grab is engagingly adept. Print edition only

  9. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    In essence, …And Star Power is Foxygen’s attempt to recapture that sort of innocence and wide-eyed enthusiasm after a prolonged, public struggle to keep their shit together
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  10. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    You the sense that they accomplished exactly what they set out to do: reconnect with the sense of play and reckless curiosity they had when they were teenagers
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  11. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    Way too long and diverse to digest at once, it's an impressive effort that doesn't touch you
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  12. 7.0 |   FasterLouder

    For all their retro leanings and sometimes misguided ideas, Rado and France remain top-drawer songwriters, and it’s that fact that make this album worth a spin or two
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  13. 6.7 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Overwhelms with its personality, one that takes on a wildly different but equally zealous form every three minutes, one that’s exciting for a long while before suddenly making you want to shelve it for a longer while
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  14. 6.0 |   Earbuddy

    Feels very much like an album whose idea came first, and Foxygen weren’t going to leave the studio without a 24-track double album
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  15. 6.0 |   Exclaim

    The record highlights a true descent into overindulgent madness, but not before demonstrating a talented band crafting great tunes
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  16. 6.0 |   Q

    Wilfully meandering, yes, but it's an enjoyable shambolic ride. Print edition only

  17. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This behemoth double LP is a risk that just hasn’t paid off
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  18. 5.0 |   NME

    Foxygen’s talents shine despite themselves here. Maybe they’ll knuckle down next time now they’ve got this sprawling mess out their systems?
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  19. 5.0 |   All Music

    The final product often feels joyless and manic, and many listeners may give up before sitting through the entire beast
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  20. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    For a project that’s all about adding more and more dimensions to the Foxygen experience, something pretty basic but essential is missing here, the core of an identity for the band making the music
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  21. 5.0 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    A misstep, to be sure, but even more troubling is that Foxygen have distended from tight, trim retro-pop to unkempt, unfocused conceptual goo in less than two years
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  22. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    In 1966, this might have been a radical statement. Today it's just a facsimile of one
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  23. 4.0 |   The Observer

    A victory for self-indulgence over quality control
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  24. 3.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    There’s little enough here to fill one disc, let alone two, and what is here could have been dug up from a time capsule
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  25. 2.0 |   Crack

    It’s desperate, dull drudgery of the most hackneyed, unworthy kind
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