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MojoNov 6, 2014Their star power indeed might be largely borrowed, but they wear it well. [Nov 2014, p.98]
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Oct 21, 2014An 82-minute combo plate of half-finished songs, choruses unmoored from verses, bursts of skyscraping beauty and long passages of sonic murk, all vaguely redolent of the Rolling Stones and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Oct 16, 2014Star Power 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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Oct 16, 2014For all the psychedelic brilliance, though, there is just as much noisy, self-impressed jamming that could have used editing.
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Oct 15, 2014For 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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Oct 15, 2014The 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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Oct 14, 2014...And Star Power is scattered, often silly and mostly inconsequential.
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Oct 14, 2014Whether imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery―and other cliches―as it pertains to this third album in the Foxygen catalog is up for debate. If it’s some secret genius, the jury is still decidedly out. Either way, you’ll want to hear this one for yourself.
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Oct 14, 2014A 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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Oct 13, 2014This is a mostly meandering, unfocused collection of half-finished sketches.
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Oct 13, 2014...And Star Power is the sound of record-collection rock having a nervous breakdown.
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Oct 13, 2014In its most fully realized moments, ...And Star Power is the album Todd Rundgren could’ve released between Something/Anything? and A Wizard, a True Star, its best songs striking an uncanny balance between the exquisite balladry of the former and the progged-out fantasias of the latter.
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Oct 13, 2014A victory for self-indulgence over quality control.
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Oct 13, 2014Unfortunately, the final product often feels joyless and manic, and many listeners may give up before sitting through the entire beast.
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Oct 10, 2014This new record still finds them wavering. By not taking a side, they fall flat in the middle.
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Oct 9, 2014This behemoth double LP is a risk that just hasn’t paid off.
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Oct 8, 2014The only sore-thumb is lead single ‘How Can You Really’, which feels far too polished for the lo-fi and experimental feel of the album. Apart from that, though, this is a record of magnificent magnitude and one that’s audacious as hell.
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Oct 7, 2014As it stands though, Foxygen bit off more than they can chew, leaving ...And Star Power as an occasionally interesting failed experiment.
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Q MagazineOct 3, 2014Willfully meandering yes, but it's an enjoyable shambolic ride that bottles early Pink Floyd, Skip Spence's cracked psych-folk and the ragged majesty of the Stones' own magnum opus. [Nov 2014, p.111]
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Oct 2, 2014The album's third side, titled "Scream: Journey Through Hell," isn't quite that, but it's a mostly abrasive collage of disjointed hard-rock riffs that provide only very intermittent pleasures. In one sense, that stretch of music is a detriment to an otherwise astonishing piece of work; in another, like so many double albums of the past, it's all part of the ride.
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Oct 2, 2014Its songwriting and overall conceptualising is definitely miles above the duo's experimental adolescent triple album. ...And Star Power is not an album - it's an out-of-body experience.
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Oct 2, 2014It's not as immediately rewarding as Ambassadors, and at times can feel a bit self-indulgent. But It's hard to fault them, because listening to Star Power gives uou the sense that they accomplished exactly what they set out to do. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.75]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 41
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Mixed: 11 out of 41
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Negative: 12 out of 41
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Oct 16, 2014
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Apr 23, 2018lo fi masterpiece. songs like Brooklyn Police Station, Cosmic Vibrations, and You & I are among their best.
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Dec 25, 2016