''Jurrassic Exxplosion Phillipic'' or ''The Jurrasic Explosion Philippic'' is the debut album by

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duo

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, which "self-produced a string of adventurous records throughout high school." Jonathan Rado described the album to

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as a "30 track space opera." It was initially released in 2007, but then a further release of a free download link was shown by Foxygen on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It was recorded when the band members were 15 years old.

We were babies. Neither one of us had hit puberty yet. Our voices were extremely high.

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Sam: Yeah. We played at the Whisky a-go-go a few times. Most of our shows were at school. It would be some class show where we would fuck around on
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and
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. Our early influences were
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. We watched Dig The Movie every day. We were into the fact that Anton “played everything.” We wanted to play everything. So I went on
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and bought every strange instrument. I would buy an
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or a
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. We would bring them to shows and we couldn’t really play any of them. But it worked for some reason. We tried to get a
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for a long time.

Track listing

References

2007 debut albums Foxygen albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub