It’s a welcome change than that, left to his own lo-fi devices, founding
Foxygen member Jonathan Rado is apparently intent on using totemic pop
forms to expose and accentuate the limits of his own voice, the
crudeness of his recording techniques and the petty self-consciousness
of his lyrical concerns. Rado’s true talent might be an ability to
wrestle with a reverence for and ironic distance from his source
material, yet somehow emerge with the sort of winningly selflacerating
music that makes up the bulk of
Law and Order, his solo debut.Inoffensive as Foxygen is, it’s ultimately difficult to really care
whether or not “Pot of Gold” is an impending signal of the band’s
implosion. Still, the flawed but fascinating
Law and Order is
good enough to warrant some hope that Rado continues to wander down his
own crooked solo path when he’s not too busy earning nods from
mainstream media outlets with his day job.
