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Sound: While the title may mislead, this seminal release isn't an international debut. Foxy's second album, it leaves you stunned. I was fortunate enough to see this group in concert, in which they were hilariously melodramatic and intentionally cheesy, committing such acts as balancing bass guitars on one's fingers and playing piano atop said instrument. Their blasting show, at a nearby Modified Arts in my home state of Arizona, was inspiringly destructive. Truly, they challenged the Alaskan's whom I'd come to see, Portugal. The Man. It was on the car drive home, listening to the CD which I'd purchased of this band from the very same concert that I learned that this band was just as original in studio as they were in concert. Piano makes a huge contribution to the Queen-inspired, soulful and wild music, the howling lead vocalist off-tune, and doing it well. Truly, you can get lost in this music, though it is surprisingly loud and angry for that piano that shoots through the tunes with massive talent. To spend my time reviewing each individual track would waste time. Not all sound the same, but I'll take away a single point for their majority's consistency. // 9
Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics aren't fantastic, but they work. The vocalist isn't sane enough to make said poetry obvious by ear, so it masks itself quite well. On the worst side of the lyrics, I'd like to note this: "There's no line/That I wouldn't cross/No divide/Between me and that!" Read off a sheet of paper, it's atrocious. However, luckily it doesn't effect the song they're placed in as a chorus, Introducing Foxy. Certain songs were fantastically written, such as The Rocketeer, and others reminded me extraordinarily of Queen (I take note of "Red Cape Diver," a ballad about a bullfighter off to work). The vocalist is extremely talented, skilled enough to develop hundreds of emotions into single phrases. He has an excellent voice. I usually use the following to refer to the aforementioned singer: "He would make an excellent voice actor." // 6
Impression: While a bit struggled at times, a little forced, and somewhat irritating. Foxy Shazam manages to work fantastically within their creative limits. They're extremely original, sounding like nothing else in musical history while sounding like so much. I'd suggest anyone buy this album, but we have our different musical tastes. I have yet to listen to the first album (if you can, you know, buy it for me, that would be fine), so I can't say as to how much it sounds like the first release. The point is, the band is very skilled, and their music itself works fantastically for nearly the whole tracklisting. // 10
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