Foxygen at Pitchfork’s SXSW day party on Thursday. Photo by Trent Maxwell. Complete coverage here.
"We love 60s and 70s music. We’re very disillusioned; we can’t relate to modern music very well. I don’t even know any new bands. In this day and age, it’s probably difficult for some people to see us as anything other than a throwback band. People are saying stuff like, ‘Get rid of nostalgia,’ and there’s that Animal Collective song [‘Peacebone’] where Avey Tare is like, ‘Obsession with the past, make your own shit’— but there are cultural imprints you can’t explain. I have connections to these things. Maybe we’re not intentionally trying to make something original."
— Foxygen— whose recent debut album was named Best New Music— make a case for their retro style in our latest feature interview.
Read Jayson Greene’s Best New Music review of Foxygen’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, and listen to the album in full at Pitchfork Advance.
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