1. 	"Intro" 	1:01
2. 	"Bombs Away" 	2:16
3. 	"Wanna-Be Angel" 	3:22
4. 	"Count Me Out" 	3:31
5. 	"Unstoppable" 	3:31
6. 	"Oh Lord" 	4:11
7. 	"Bye Bye Symphony" 	4:09
8. 	"Second Floor" 	3:56
9. 	"Teenage Demon Baby" 	3:31
10. "With an Axe" 	4:46
11. "Evil Thoughts" 	4:17
12. "Killin' It" 	4:10
13. "Connect Me" 	3:24
14. "Some Kind of Love" 	3:10
15. "You and Me" 	4:30

Eric Sean Nally - Vocals
Loren Daniel Turner - Guitars
Sky Vaughn White - Keyboards
Daisy Caplan - Bass
Alex Nauth - Horns/Backing vocals
Thomas Pridgen - Drums

Foxy Shazam is an up-and-coming band that nicely blends shredding guitars, staccato keys, and amazing singalong choruses with the perfect hint of mild insanity. Singer Eric Sean Nally dominates the stage and doesn’t give a fuck if you haven’t heard a single song – he grabs ahold of ya and never lets go.

These guys are on the road with The Sounds and literally destroyed their opening spot in New York City. Their first album, “The Flamingo Trigger,” provides you with a hardcore and thrashy, while at times, abstract feel. Their second LP, my favorite – “Introducing Foxy Shazam” is a bit more structured. From avant-garde, to pop rock, to hardcore…I imagine the experimental rock of Foxy Shazam will continue well into their third record, 2010’s “Au Contraire”.

The “Au Contraire” was the working title for the version that got leaked about a month before it was released as "Foxy Shazam" or Self-Titled. "Foxy Shazam" was released on April 13, 2010, by Sire Records.

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With a love for the musical excess of Meat Loaf and Queen, Foxy Shazam storm flamboyantly into the night with their third album, the eponymously titled Foxy Shazam. While the band is incredibly talented (especially the piano playing of Sky White), the show is really all about mustachioed frontman Eric Nally. Over the course of the album, Nally’s performance is an homage to the theatrical bombast of charismatic greats like Freddie Mercury and Russell Mael (with Nally bearing an eerie resemblance to the former). Backing up his big voice is the rest of the band, consisting of the standard rock setup plus piano and horns. The music combines the relentless drive and positivity of Andrew W.K. with the dramatic flair of Jim Steinman, with sweeping guitar riffs pushing the songs forward while the piano brings a pop sensibility to the whole thing. Given how big the presence of the music is, it’s really a testament to Nally’s over the top persona that he’s able to stand out among everything that’s happening in the background while somehow never feeling forced. Nally sings like a pop hero on songs like “Killin’ It” and “Wanna-Be Angel,” as if he’s confident he’s a superstar and whether or not anyone else knows it is inconsequential. With such a classic combination of pop and rock, this is an album that’s just dripping with crossover appeal, with big hooks for the radio and enough rock and emotion for the post-emo crowd to sink its teeth into. ---Gregory Heaney, AllMusic Review

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01 – Welcome To The Church Of Rock And Roll
02 – I Like It
03 – Holy Touch
04 – Last Chance At Love
05 – Forever Together
06 – (It’s) Too Late Baby
07 – I Wanna Be Yours
08 – Wasted Feelings
09 – The Temple
10 – The Streets
11 – Freedom

Musicians:
    Eric Nally - Vocals
    Sky White - Keyboards
    Daisy - Bass
    Loren Turner - Guitar
    Alex Nauth - Horns
    Aaron McVeigh – Drums

Foxy Shazam always felt like a band that was looking to bring "over-the-top" back to rock & roll, pushing the envelope on bombast as if their mission was to make Sparks seem not only straitlaced, but dull by comparison. On The Church of Rock and Roll, however, it seems that change is in the air. From the album's titular opening track, where singer Eric Nally proclaims, "Your music sucks including us, it's time we clear our name," to the stark mission statement in the liner notes that lets the listener know, "Foxy Shazam is a jet plane going down and we have been playing the same tune the whole way. It just sounds different the closer we get to the ground," it's clear that the band is looking to reinvent itself. While songs like "Holy Touch" and "I Like It" still feel like the Foxy Shazam of years past, the winds of change can definitely be felt throughout the album. The band certainly hasn't lost their flair for the theatric, but instead of doing it with near-operatic blasts of rock energy, Foxy Shazam channels that energy into tighter, dancefloor-ready tracks. "I Wanna Be Yours" marches its way forward without ever losing control, giving the song a relatively restrained feeling that sort of gets to the heart of what the band is trying to do with the album. Rather than looking ever upwards for new ideas with soaring guitars and pure rock & roll grandeur, Foxy Shazam are expanding outwards, absorbing a whole new set of tools into their songwriting arsenal as they give their sound an overhaul. Even though the album has a transitional feeling, Foxy Shazam still manage to make their sonic renovation a fun ride, and The Church of Rock and Roll is an entertaining stop on the musical journey. ---Gregory Heaney, AllMusic Review

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