Introducing Foxygen

Name: Foxygen
From: Olympia, Washington/New York, New York
Story: Manic pastiches of British Invasion licks
Sound: Weathered and vintage, with gnarly guitars and hollered vox

In a piece of artful biography-makin', the press-release touting Jagjaguwar's July 24 release of Foxygen's Take the Kids Off Broadway touts their music as the "de-Wes Andersonization of The Rolling Stones, Kinks, Velvets, Bowie, etc."

Meaning, that these pastiching kids —Olympia-based Sam France, New York-based Jonathan Rado, both 22— come steeped in British Invasion sounds, but don't treat their heroes with a precious, breathless reverence. Form isn't holy in Foxygen's purview, it's something to be toyed with, messed with, embraced and/or discarded as the situation arises.

Take the Kids Off Broadway is a barrel of monkeys, a manic record that crams its seven songs and 36-minutes full of a whole discography's worth of ideas. The 10-minute epic "Teenage Alien Blues" is less 10-minute, more about seven different songs stitched together into one rag-tag tapestry. The fact that France and Rado have the yen to join jostling snippets of ideas into long, wandering songs both suggests the current era of constant, conflicting musical stimulus whilst displaying undoubted discipline in their studio needlework.

Similarly, the record hangs together with an unbroken tone: pleasingly vintage-sounding, all warm microphone sounds, weathered edges, and through-a-toilet-roll vocals. That its closing cut, "Middle School Dance (Song for Richard Swift)," casts homage to one of indie music most tonally-authentic re-creators is no coincidence. Like Dicky S., Foxygen summon the distant past, but never genuflect to it; making music filled with, like, 'de-reverentialisation,' or something.

• Listen: Foxygen, "Make It Known"
• Visit: Foxygen on Bandcamp