Foxygen Share New Single, “Work” CLAMOR, STEAM PRESSURE, MUSCLE & ATTITUDE
Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think a Foxygen tune would call to mind Deniece Williams’s 1981 pop-classic “Let’s Hear It For The Boy.” However, if you’d have told us that it would include strange nautical bells clinging along on top of it and/or that the duo of Jonathan Rado and Sam France would use the tune as a vehicle to poke holes in one another’s creative process — okay, then yeah, that would make it a bit more believable. It’s got all the clamor, steam pressure, muscle and attitude of a construction site, but compressed into something as close to full-on POP as Foxygen has ventured to date.
“Work” comes from Foxygen’s latest album Seeing Other People, which curiously positioned as the band’s most recent last-ever album. With every album the band dies; with every album the band is reborn. But unlike the last-ever Foxygen albums before it, this one seems to have a self-effacing bittersweetness to it that signifies some sort of passing; some sort of white flag. But it sounds in no way like a band giving up. It has experiments in tone and genre the likes of which we’ve not heard on a Foxygen record since….Starpower?; since 21st Century?; since Take the Kids???
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