| Foxygen / We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic |
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| Album: | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Foxygen | Added: | Feb 2013 | |
| Label: | Jagjaguwar | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-02-16 | Pull Date: | 2013-04-21 |
| Week Ending: | Apr 21 | Apr 14 | Apr 7 | Mar 17 | Mar 10 | Mar 3 | Feb 24 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 28, 2021: | nearby galaxies (rebroadcast from Apr 10, 2019) Shuggie | 4. | Aug 21, 2019: | The Library San Francisco | |
| 2. | Jan 29, 2020: | The Library San Francisco | 5. | Jul 24, 2019: | The Library San Francisco | |
| 3. | Nov 11, 2019: | baggage claim Shuggie | 6. | May 15, 2019: | nearby galaxies San Francisco |
| Album Review |
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| Grumpy Sean Reviewed 2013-02-16 | ||
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Bi-coastal male duo -- originally from LA, but now in Olympia and Brooklyn -- offer up their second long-form release. The basic vibe is a late sixties / early seventies pop-rock sampler, with references including the softer sides of Dylan and the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, occasional girl-group backing vox, Wall of Sound production, faux-funk, and buried guitar solos. Also reminiscent of Guided By Voices in how each song works through disparate (and often unfinished) retro-song snippets, with varying levels of success. But when the retro and the present find each other in the right proportions, the results are top-notch pop that may not stay underground for long. FCC: #2 1. med, gentle pop opener 2. FCC ("asshole"), med-, faux-Dylan vox 3. * varies, packing ten years of music into one song. Slow contemplative bits, rave-ups, children's choruses, Neil Young single-note solos, etc. 4. * dn+, sappy, silly love song with echoes of Scott Mackenzie 5. med-, mostly instrumental (just bah-bah-bah vox), something of a palate cleanser after the preceding two songs 6. med-, slow-faux-funk with rock-ish bridges, frustrating in its juxtapositions (i.e. parts I love, parts I hate, all in a 3-minute package) 7. med, mid-70 Stones, "Missing You" but without Mick's sneering edge? 8. * med/varies, sprawling across genres 9. dn/varies, more Abbey Road Beatles-y with a darker, spacey turn in the middle that bails out to solo piano/off-key vox | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | In The Darkness | 5. | Bowling Trophies | |||
| 2. | No Destruction | 6. | Shuggie | |||
| 3. | On Blue Mountain | 7. | Oh Yeah | |||
| 4. | San Francisco | 8. | We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic | |||
| 9. | Oh No | |||||