It’s not easy to make sense of the latest song from Foxygen. One minute, “America” is lurching orchestral pop, complete with dramatic strings and woodwinds. The next, it’s a melancholy piano piece, followed by a sudden shift to oddball jazz punctuated by bursts of noise and orchestrated chaos. It’s an epic, head-spinning collision of sounds worthy of multiple listens. “If you’re already there, then you’re already dead,” the Los Angeles duo sings. “If you’re living in America.”
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