Foxygen annoncerer nyt album, Seeing Other People, ude d. 26. april via JagJaguwar/Playground Music
Los Angeles-baserede Foxygen, duoen bestående af Sam France og Jonathan Rado, vender tilbage med deres nye album Seeing Other People, den 26. april på Jagjaguwar/Playground Music. Herudover deler de nu singlen ”Livin’ A Lie,” med dertilhørende video. Se video HER
Seeing Other People er skrevet og produceret af Foxygen hos Sonora Recorders i Los Feliz, Californien og mixet af Shawn Everett. Hele vejen igennem blomstrer Foxygens evner til at eksperimentere med og udvide de klassiske pop- og rock lyde, med indslag fra den legendariske trommeslager Jim Keltner. Seeing Other People viser Foxygen fra deres bedste side ”chopping up pop culture and spinning it into a sticky, wicked web.”. Og den specifikke lyd på dette album beskriver bandet selv som ”Sad-Boy Plastic-Soul Adult-Contemporary Cartoon-Noir Music.”
Seeing Other People er skrevet og produceret af Foxygen hos Sonora Recorders i Los Feliz, Californien og mixet af Shawn Everett. Hele vejen igennem blomstrer Foxygens evner til at eksperimentere med og udvide de klassiske pop- og rock lyde, med indslag fra den legendariske trommeslager Jim Keltner. Seeing Other People viser Foxygen fra deres bedste side ”chopping up pop culture and spinning it into a sticky, wicked web.”. Og den specifikke lyd på dette album beskriver bandet selv som ”Sad-Boy Plastic-Soul Adult-Contemporary Cartoon-Noir Music.”
Passende navngivet efter den voksne frase ”maybe we should see other people”, er Foxygens Seeing Other People, det mest ligetil ”farvel” album endnu; ”Goodbye to the drugs, to the partying. Goodbye to my twenties now, Goodbye to my Saint Laurent-model-body. Goodbye to the touring circus — that’s right, no more shows or tours for a while. Goodbye, hopefully, to the anxiety attacks. Goodbye to beating myself up because I didn’t fit into those leather pants anymore. Fuck it. Goodbye to the facilities. And goodbye the leeches in my life,” siger France.
Albummet er fyldt med selvreflekterende historier om at turnere, feste, være ung og i et band og sige farvel til de grynede og mørke aspekter af det hele.“I remember a quote from Rado sticking with the press a few years ago about how we’d lived every rock n roll cliche in, about, one year. Well, here’s the album about it. Another movie. I don’t know what’s next. But here’s a snapshot of it all.”
1. singlen ”Livin’ A Lie” er en anerkendelse af fame-hungry mimicry som France synger “you’re name-dropping me all the time / You know I don’t really care for it / yeah you know that I don’t really care about it/ How does it feel to be livin a lie?”. Videoen, der er filmet i Calabass og i bandets hjemby, Westlake Village, i kølvandet på Woolsey brandene, er instrueret af Alessandra Lichtenfeld, og viser France der alene går rundt i et næsten tomt hus, mens Rado er omkring venner i et studie, inden huset til sidst falder sammen.
Se Foxygens ”Livin’ A Lie” video nederst i indlægget.
Seeing Other People Trackliste:
1.Work
2. Mona
3. Seeing Other People
4. Face The Facts
5. Livin’ A Lie
6. The Thing Is
7. News
8. Flag At Half-Mast
9. The Conclusion
En personlig besked fra Sam France omkring det nye Foxygen album, Seeing Other People:
As my partner Rado and I recorded the latest Foxygen album, I was putting the finishing touches on a memoir following my time in the band and music industry at large. While the following statement about the new record is not an excerpt from this memoir, it was written freshly upon completing it. It sealed a lot of things in my my mind/life/this new Foxygen album thematically. The memoir is a tell-all called Sam Francisco: Confessions of an Indie Rock Starand will be out very soon. But the new Foxygen record is called: Seeing Other People
In a relationship, saying “Maybe we should see other people” is the Adult way of saying, “Let’s end shit.” So, here is our Adult Contemporary album.
Is this the break-up album? Is the band breaking up?
Why does everybody keep asking that? We would like to compassionately ask our management, our fans and everyone else not to worry themselves. No. We’re never breaking up. We’re not a band and never were.
For me "Seeing Other People" just means goodbye: Goodbye to the drugs, to the partying. Goodbye to my twenties now, Goodbye to my Saint Laurent-model-body. Goodbye to the touring circus — that’s right, no more shows or tours for a while. Goodbye, hopefully, to the anxiety attacks. Goodbye to beating myself up because I didn’t fit into those leather pants anymore. Fuck it. Goodbye to the facilities. And goodbye the leeches in my life. I know a lot of gritty stories about a lot of players in this business but you’ll have to read between the lines.
I remember a quote from Rado sticking with the press a few years ago about how we’d lived every rock n roll cliche in, about, one year. Well, here’s the album about it. Another movie. I don’t know what’s next. But here’s a snapshot of it all. And for some reason it’s some sort of polished Yuppie-Pop masterpiece. It sounds like your dad’s favorite recording artist circa 1985 sneaking off to the studio bathroom for a hit of blow. Or maybe, sometimes it sounds like Kanye West producing John Mellencamp. Please don’t quote this paragraph (They’re gonna put this one in all the headlines).
But damn if this isn't this some funky Music. RT&B music. Rado and me, walking into the morning sunshine after it all goes down, just doing what we do best — chopping up pop culture and spinning it into a sticky, wicked web. As for the production and all that, you’d have to ask Rado about the technojargon. What can I say? Rado does some good disc-scratching on “Work”. Rado is — and should be and will be — acknowledged as one of the great revolutionary artists for all of his production work. But yes, also for his pop-sound modern art experiments with me, such as this album. The album is engineered and mixed by the brilliant superstar Shawn Everett. And only the legendary Jim Keltner on drums.
So, don’t be blue. We’ve always been a recording project. I mean, to put it simply, we were sitting on a great record so we’re putting it out. Thank you, I’m Sorry and You’re Welcome. Here’s the new Foxygen record. And don’t worry, Jagjaguwar. It’s an album of singles.
Love You All.
Living and learning as always,
Love God Bless,
Sam
Albummet er fyldt med selvreflekterende historier om at turnere, feste, være ung og i et band og sige farvel til de grynede og mørke aspekter af det hele.“I remember a quote from Rado sticking with the press a few years ago about how we’d lived every rock n roll cliche in, about, one year. Well, here’s the album about it. Another movie. I don’t know what’s next. But here’s a snapshot of it all.”
1. singlen ”Livin’ A Lie” er en anerkendelse af fame-hungry mimicry som France synger “you’re name-dropping me all the time / You know I don’t really care for it / yeah you know that I don’t really care about it/ How does it feel to be livin a lie?”. Videoen, der er filmet i Calabass og i bandets hjemby, Westlake Village, i kølvandet på Woolsey brandene, er instrueret af Alessandra Lichtenfeld, og viser France der alene går rundt i et næsten tomt hus, mens Rado er omkring venner i et studie, inden huset til sidst falder sammen.
Se Foxygens ”Livin’ A Lie” video nederst i indlægget.
Seeing Other People Trackliste:
1.Work
2. Mona
3. Seeing Other People
4. Face The Facts
5. Livin’ A Lie
6. The Thing Is
7. News
8. Flag At Half-Mast
9. The Conclusion
En personlig besked fra Sam France omkring det nye Foxygen album, Seeing Other People:
As my partner Rado and I recorded the latest Foxygen album, I was putting the finishing touches on a memoir following my time in the band and music industry at large. While the following statement about the new record is not an excerpt from this memoir, it was written freshly upon completing it. It sealed a lot of things in my my mind/life/this new Foxygen album thematically. The memoir is a tell-all called Sam Francisco: Confessions of an Indie Rock Starand will be out very soon. But the new Foxygen record is called: Seeing Other People
In a relationship, saying “Maybe we should see other people” is the Adult way of saying, “Let’s end shit.” So, here is our Adult Contemporary album.
Is this the break-up album? Is the band breaking up?
Why does everybody keep asking that? We would like to compassionately ask our management, our fans and everyone else not to worry themselves. No. We’re never breaking up. We’re not a band and never were.
For me "Seeing Other People" just means goodbye: Goodbye to the drugs, to the partying. Goodbye to my twenties now, Goodbye to my Saint Laurent-model-body. Goodbye to the touring circus — that’s right, no more shows or tours for a while. Goodbye, hopefully, to the anxiety attacks. Goodbye to beating myself up because I didn’t fit into those leather pants anymore. Fuck it. Goodbye to the facilities. And goodbye the leeches in my life. I know a lot of gritty stories about a lot of players in this business but you’ll have to read between the lines.
I remember a quote from Rado sticking with the press a few years ago about how we’d lived every rock n roll cliche in, about, one year. Well, here’s the album about it. Another movie. I don’t know what’s next. But here’s a snapshot of it all. And for some reason it’s some sort of polished Yuppie-Pop masterpiece. It sounds like your dad’s favorite recording artist circa 1985 sneaking off to the studio bathroom for a hit of blow. Or maybe, sometimes it sounds like Kanye West producing John Mellencamp. Please don’t quote this paragraph (They’re gonna put this one in all the headlines).
But damn if this isn't this some funky Music. RT&B music. Rado and me, walking into the morning sunshine after it all goes down, just doing what we do best — chopping up pop culture and spinning it into a sticky, wicked web. As for the production and all that, you’d have to ask Rado about the technojargon. What can I say? Rado does some good disc-scratching on “Work”. Rado is — and should be and will be — acknowledged as one of the great revolutionary artists for all of his production work. But yes, also for his pop-sound modern art experiments with me, such as this album. The album is engineered and mixed by the brilliant superstar Shawn Everett. And only the legendary Jim Keltner on drums.
So, don’t be blue. We’ve always been a recording project. I mean, to put it simply, we were sitting on a great record so we’re putting it out. Thank you, I’m Sorry and You’re Welcome. Here’s the new Foxygen record. And don’t worry, Jagjaguwar. It’s an album of singles.
Love You All.
Living and learning as always,
Love God Bless,
Sam