

Like many home-recording artists before them who found that their half-baked ideas had a deceptive charm of their own, Foxygen—the duo of Sam France and Jonathan Rado—have recreated the craziness of their high school recording project but added superior fidelity and top-notch musicianship that can nail any genre at will. Reminiscent of R. Stevie Moore and/or Ween, Foxygen’s second album, …And Star Power, plays like an experimental mixtape with pop songs and ballads recalling the early '70s, bizarre jams, punk noise, and flashing moments of pure brilliance for more than 80 minutes of serendipitous madness.