Take The Kids Off Broadway

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Foxygen's name might evoke a giggle. But after hearing the first track here (a stylistically sprawling nod to ancestral icons like the Stones, the Kinks, and early Modern Lovers) and then the second track (which sounds like The Fresh & Onlys, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Serge Gainsbourg partying down just before the song morphs into a Broadway show tune), you can see why the cheeky name just makes sense. Jon Rado and Sam France, musical partners since high school in mid-'00s L.A., are encyclopedic musical wells, and you can imagine the fun they must have writing songs together. There are clanging guitars, '60s organs, swinging '70s horns, brazen melodic borrowing ("As Tears Go By," "Black Is Black," "Hang on Sloopy," etc.), and vocal tones recalling—ready?—Jagger, Bowie, and Reed. It's almost too much for the brain and ears to process at once. So we recommend turning it (your brain) off, digging in for an amazing good time with <i>Take the Kids Off Broadway</i>, and marveling over the good things that come your way in life.

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