Returning to a tack they'd previously embraced before achieving a measure of critical success, ... And Star Power reorients Foxygen's trajectory, without any regard for making a "follow-up." In hindsight, 2011's Take The Kids Off Broadway EP and 2013's We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic were - in Star Power's wake - outliers within their discography.
Those two albums, by turns invigorating and confounding, were the most polished works Foxygen had released to date. They were, however, not debut albums. From 2005-2011, Foxygen made several EPs and at least one "album," -- only no one heard them. Kill Art and Ghettoplastikk are twenty-odd minute journeys through two teenage boys discovering themselves and their sound. They feature as many great, catchy tracks as they do maddening ones, and display an emerging confidence in their studio weirdness. "Jurrassic Exxplosion Philippic" is a 30-song "opera" that's light on song length and lighter on concentration, but flashes a progressing prodigy. An EP in 2011, and various other tracks (and untold more stowed away on external hard drives) also punctuate what amounts to ten years of output.
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