First Listen: Foxygen, '...And Star Power' — npr.org

Foxygen's new album, ...And Star Power, comes out Oct. 14. Cara Robbins/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Foxygen's new album, ...And Star Power, comes out Oct. 14. When LPs and cassettes gave way to compact discs in the late '80s and early '90s, many bands seized on the format's 80-minute time limit as a challenge: If a disc can hold that much music, the thought process went, then why shouldn't it? This led to some legendarily bloated albums, as well as an increased tendency to tuck in tossed-off bonus tracks after 20- and 30-minute blocks of silence, until cooler heads and quality control (mostly) prevailed. Now, as more and more music is released digitally — theoretically untethering future albums from any restriction on length at all — new releases have, for the most part, become geared toward ever-shorter attention spans.

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