“….AND STAR POWER” album review and notes on where it all may be going for FOXYGEN by Robin Merritt
Every time I re-listen to this album I get a renewed affection for it. A lot of critics just don’t get it but I’m wondering what kind of sad, boring sh*t they think is good? I keep thinking back to Exile on Main Street and how that record endured the same kind of exasperation from music writers in it’s early release days but there’s no stylistic similarities here, no blues, no voodoo. Just a restless desire to go onstage and release all this pent up energy….