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Jan 20, 2017Hang is truly something to behold in all its grandiosity and pompous pure pop bombast.
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Jan 17, 2017While Hang doesn’t explore much new ground, that’s never really been on Foxygen's agenda. It's a great return all the same.
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Jan 9, 2017Utterly theatrical, it represents without presenting; evokes without mentioning; transports without moving. It's as fake as the time we're living in, and as fascinating as our own decadence.
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Jan 20, 2017On Hang, Foxygen hits its stride, a well-oiled machine confident in its surfeit of songwriting abilities and wieldy powers.
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Jan 23, 2017Only woolly lyrics stop the album achieving the sharp quality of its influences.
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Jan 20, 2017Here, they’ve crafted a shag and wood-grained interior as remarkably indebted to its predecessors as it is now warm and full and huge.
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Jan 20, 2017Hang is propelled by two principal forces--star-quality musicianship and the will to trespass beyond tradition. And, crucially, at a third of the size of its predecessor, it allows Rado and France--who wrote and produced every song--to fully focus. Rado’s keys are particularly outstanding.
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Jan 19, 2017While it may draw its share of eye rolls, for those who play along, it's a triumph of extravagance and theatricality served with a wink and a chorus line.
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Q MagazineJan 17, 2017Hang is brilliantly ludicrous and ludicrously brilliant. [Mar 2017, p.106]
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Jan 6, 2017Hang can delight and frustrate in equal measure, but it is an indulgent album that tempts the listener into just one more, wafer-thin listen.
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MojoJan 5, 2017The eight-song concoction is a joyful, lush and fittingly grandiose suite. [Feb 2017, p.93]
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UncutJan 5, 2017Self-aware and possibly self-satisfied, this is wildly overloaded pastiche taken to ludicrous but highly entertaining extremes. [Feb 2017, p.28]
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Jan 5, 2017This is a pointedly unhip album, an that's part of what makes this so refreshing. [Jan-Mar 2017, p.65]
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Jan 18, 2017As Foxygen continue with their disparate series of throwback experiments, Hang finds them closer than ever to striking a balance between their wild, ambitious ideas and innate strengths
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Jan 17, 2017With Hang, Foxygen have proven their capacity for lavish spectacle, but they’re still at their best when they give themselves the freedom to roam.
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Jan 10, 2017Tension may not be the defining characteristic of Foxygen's sound this time around, but it's still there, bubbling up furiously beneath the sparkling surface.
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Jan 19, 2017France and Rado steer into the skid of the cliché, taking something old and making it their own, unafraid to veer into Pinterest board territory if it means it will get their point across. And the point of Hang is to feel something unapologetically.
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Jan 23, 2017It’s overwhelming in its grandiosity, and though it has its virtues, Foxygen’s latest LP is best enjoyed as a bite-size hors d'oeuvre instead of a main course.
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Jan 5, 2017At first the wackiness is too much to digest, a sort of “you don’t have to be mad to review this, but it helps!” Yet against the odds, Hang does reward patience.
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Jan 20, 2017The band’s latest is a slight improvement, though the self-indulgence and lack of focus are still in evidence.
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Jan 25, 2017As it stands, Hang isn’t an unpleasant listen, but it’s an oddly frustrating one.
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Feb 13, 2017Hang appears as an album of ambition that outdoes itself so spectacularly that it appears as a jazzed up, Disney-esque caricature of its own end product.
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Jan 18, 2017Sometimes, sheer ambition can render music too top-heavy to succeed. Hang, by Los Angeles duo Foxygen, is a case in point.
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Jan 17, 2017The orchestra tries so desperately to stage this cool retro show, but there are so many glaring holes in the script.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 45
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Mixed: 6 out of 45
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Negative: 1 out of 45
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Jan 20, 2017
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May 14, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017