Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
Foxygen began as the classic rock-leaning experimental pop project of multi-instrumentalists Sam France and Jonathan Rado. The two grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Westlake Village and started the band in 2005 as 15-year-old high school freshmen. Apart from sharing a voracious love of classic albums from the Ramones to Led Zeppelin, the two bonded over a shared inspiration after watching the rockumentary Dig together. Learning that Anton Newcombe, mastermind behind the Brian Jonestown Massacre and key subject of the film, played up to 75 different instruments on his band's albums inspired the youths to learn as many different instruments as possible themselves.
As both 'America' and 'Follow the Leader' tracks have hinted at, every song on the album features a symphony orchestra. Trey Pollard arranged and conducted the group of over 40 musicians, and Matthew E. White contributed additional arrangements.
The album also features appearances from the Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd and the Lemon Twigs. France and Rado wrote and produced all of Hang themselves.