We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic. And if the title alone isn’t enough to irk you, then by god, you should hear the music. We’re speaking of the new album by Jagjaguwar-signed retromaniacs Foxygen, a band that’s following a time-honored route to commercial success: mining the contents of their parents’ record collection and doing their best to reproduce the contents thereof pretty much verbatim. Foxygen certainly do that well enough — so much so, in fact, that when we heard their song “Waitin 4 U” last year, we genuinely thought it was an Exile on Main Street outtake. The question remains, though: Why oh why is anyone making music like this in 2013? … Read More