I listened to Foxygen's new album ...And Star Power and veen, I have to say that I wasn't immediately that in to it. I was able to listen to the full album uninterrupted and it never grabbed hold of me, that said it never repelled me either. However, I have started listening again and I'm now beginning to feel it. Their last album was immediately a favorite of mine. The songs on it felt familiar, like old friends I was rediscovering. I don't have this on their new one at all. I gather that they see it as a concept album and I have just read that their premise was that the album transitions midway through to a band called "Star Power" playing instead of Foxygen. A very Sgt Pepper idea, but Pepper had songs. There are definitely some tracks on here that I enjoyed but nothing like their previous offering. I will give this some more listens in hopes that I continue to discover nuance etc, something that actually seems likely given my second listen. Some of my favorite albums have grown on me over time, my hope is that this is the case with ...And Star Power because I do dig this band. What do you think?
Will have to give this a listen. Not being too familiar with their sound, I imagine in a dream that this new stuff, being my introduction, will be loved by me as much as the other is for you. We never forget our first crush. Funny how a new album from an old band becomes more difficult to integrate. How do artists grow when we continue to love their former cuteness? Is reinvention a requirement? Is irrelevance inevitable? Are our expectations getting the best of us?
So true. So incredibly true. The prior familiarity is inevitably a bad thing. I've often wondered if this exact phenomenon is why I basically only like entire discographies of bands that folded before I was born and can reliably graph my favorite albums by bands in correlation with the order I found them.Funny how a new album from an old band becomes more difficult to integrate.