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Album: Hang
# Song Title   Time
1)    Follow The Leader More Info...
2)    Avalon More Info...
3)    Mrs. Adams More Info...
4)    America More Info...
5)    On Lankershim More Info...
6)    Upon A Hill More Info...
7)    Trauma More Info...
8)    Rise Up More Info...
2)    Avalon More Info...
3)    Mrs. Adams More Info...
4)    America More Info...
5)    On Lankershim More Info...
6)    Upon a Hill More Info...
7)    Trauma More Info...
8)    Rise Up More Info...
 
Album: Hang
# Song Title   Time
1)    Follow The Leader More Info...
2)    Avalon More Info...
3)    Mrs. Adams More Info...
4)    America More Info...
5)    On Lankershim More Info...
6)    Upon A Hill More Info...
7)    Trauma More Info...
8)    Rise Up More Info...
2)    Avalon More Info...
3)    Mrs. Adams More Info...
4)    America More Info...
5)    On Lankershim More Info...
6)    Upon a Hill More Info...
7)    Trauma More Info...
8)    Rise Up More Info...
 
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  • Personnel: Grace Bauson (harp); Melissa Sunderland, Faith Hofma, Treesa Gold, Anna Bishop, Stacy Matthews, Elise Blake, Adrian Pintea (violin); Kimberly Ryan, Johanna Beaver, Tom Stevens (viola); Stephaine Barrett, Shara Stamps, Jason McComb (cello); Lauren Serpa (flute, alto flute); Anthony Smith (flute); John Winn (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone); Rick Reiger (clarinet, alto saxophone); Jason Scott (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Victoria Hamrick (oboe, English horn); Laura Smith (oboe); Kevin Simpson, JC Kuhl (tenor saxophone); Suzi Fischer (baritone saxophone); Taylor Barnett, Bob Miller , Marcus Tenney, Rob Quallich (trumpet, flugelhorn); Rachel Velvikis, Erin Lano, Amanda Winger (French horn); Toby Whitaker, Scott Flynn, Bryan Hooten (trombone); Reginald Chapman (bass trombone); Stephanie Ycaza (tuba); Pinson Chanselle (timpani, chimes).
  • Audio Mixer: Cian Riordan.
  • Recording information: Montrose Recording; Vox Studios, Los Angeles.
  • Photographers: Cara Robbins; Michael Taliaferro.
  • Arranger: Matthew E. White.
  • Sharing a title with the final track of their prior release, .And Star Power, Hang is the fourth LP from classic rock cognoscenti Foxygen. The duo of singer Sam France and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Rado present a dazzling confection here that's in stark contrast to its erratic 24-track predecessor. Hang's rather meticulous eight entries find France and Rado accompanied by a 40-plus-piece orchestra for the entire set, which also features appearances from the Lemon Twigs and the Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd. Drozd, who's credited not only with drums but tympani, electric guitar, and harpsichord, was not to be outdone by the Lemon Twigs' Michael D'Addario, whose work here includes drums and tap dancing. Also Foxygen's first professional-studio album, Hang was recorded at Vox Studios in Los Angeles with help from, among others, Trey Pollard (Natalie Prass, Matthew E. White), who arranged and conducted the orchestra. The band not only justifies but seems to maximize use of all of the above on an exuberant 32-minute LP that keeps upping the ante. Turn the dial to early-'70s AM gold for "Follow the Leader," with its funky groove, big brass, (surely choreographed) female backing vocalists, and France's sassy snarl. Changing gears, "Avalon" touches on Dixieland and ABBA, while "On Lankershim" takes on a sort of countrified Elton John. The album's centerpiece, however, is the anthemic "America," a tightly packed five-minute epic musical jambalaya that spans decades of jazz, rock, and show tunes as lyrics admonish: "If you're already there, then you're already dead/If you're living in America." A self-produced album that's more musically ambitious and larger in scope than many a Broadway musical, it still has the frenzied wackiness of Foxygen that's sure to continue to divide listeners. They go all in on Hang, so while it may draw its share of eye rolls, for those who play along, it's a triumph of extravagance and theatricality served with a wink and a chorus line. ~ Marcy Donelson
Professional Reviews
Spin - "HANG, their latest, finds Foxygen as the pop act they always could have been, as they return to the simplicity of their breakthrough in a number of unexpected ways....Here, they've crafted a shag and wood-grained interior as remarkably indebted to its predecessors as it is now warm and full and huge."

NME (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "HANG is propelled by two principal forces -- star-quality musicianship and the will to trespass beyond tradition. And, crucially, at a third of the size of its predecessor, it allows Rado and France -- who wrote and produced every song -- to fully focus."

Clash (magazine) - "This is the band's most irreverently theatrical work to date, with sweeping symphonic lifts and punchy horns taking centre stage as lead-singer Sam France dutifully combs through his dizzying rolodex of Bowie, Jagger, and Dylan impressions."
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