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Old 04-30-13, 01:06 PM
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

Initial listen was a bit underwhelming for me.
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

I've listened to it a few times and I like it quite a bit. Probably not as much as Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

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I've listened to it a few times and I like it quite a bit. Probably not as much as Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
I think I like it a bit more, but probably because it's new to me. It doesn't have the killer singles of WAP but I think it's more consistent.
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

Hm I need to download, er, buy this album
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

I don't dig it as a whole like WAP but I don't dislike any single track. Tracks 2, 3, and 9 are my faves.
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Re: Phoenix "Bankrupt" 4-23-13

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It doesn't have the killer singles of WAP but I think it's more consistent.
I agree. It's almost like most of the songs don't stand out, but they're all good.
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Phoenix - "Ti Amo"



1. "J-Boy"
2. "Ti Amo"
3. "Tuttifrutti"
4. "Fior di Latte"
5. "Lovelife"
6. "Goodbye Soleil"
7. "Fleur de Lys"
8. "Role Model"
9. "Via Veneto"
10. "Telefono"

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TwjMiWgCi8E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IV1LUVMU7JQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tsHkjn_YNBg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Anyone been listening to this? I'm enjoying it.
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Re: Phoenix - "Ti Amo"

Thanks for this, I will grab this cd asap, such great songs!
Old 06-16-22, 01:21 PM
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Re: Phoenix -- Discussion Thread

They are touring this fall with Porches. That is a great bill.

New song:



Also, this song came out a while back with the On The Rocks soundtrack (Thomas Mars is married to Sofia Coppola):



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Re: Phoenix -- Discussion Thread

Their tour itinerary seems limited this time around. Love the song, love the video. Their music always has this weird blend of seeming both forward-looking and familiar at the same time.
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Just watched the fantastic live concert video at the Accorhotels Arena (2017) on youtube.

I got to see Phoenix live at a smaller venue, not sure what tour it was for anymore, but was impressed when Thomas Mars walked straight out into the audience to sing a song. Glad to see he was still doing it even in an arena in 2017. Quite bad ass if you ask me to have that level of trust with his audience.
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Re: Phoenix -- Discussion Thread


2000s-era indie rock lovers rejoice: Phoenix has released a new song, “Tonight,” featuring vocals from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. The track will appear on Phoenix’s new album, Alpha Zulu, which will be released Nov. 4 on Loyaute/Glassnote Records.

In the Oscar Boyson-directed video, Phoenix’s members go about their daily business in Paris while Koenig does the same via split-screen from Tokyo. The track is a first for Phoenix in that the long-running French group has never featured another vocalist on one of its songs until now.

Alpha Zulu was produced by Phoenix and recorded in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs inside the Palais du Louvre. “We felt it would be a fantastic adventure to create something out of nothing in a museum,” guitarist/keyboardist Laurent Brancowitz says. “And so with the pandemic, we could live exactly this scene — to be alone in an empty museum.”

“I was a bit afraid, when there was too much beauty around us, that to create something could be a bit hard,” adds guitarist Christian Mazzalai. “But it was the opposite: we couldn’t stop producing music. In these first 10 days, we wrote almost all of the album.”

Alpha Zulu is infused with the spirit of longtime collaborator Philippe Zdar, who passed away in 2019 after falling from a Paris building. “We had many moments where we could feel his ideas,” Mazzalai says of Zdar. The album opens with its title track, which was released as a single at the beginning of the summer and quickly became a live favorite. It closes with “Identical,” which previously appeared in the 2020 film On the Rocks, directed by Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars’ wife Sofia Coppola.

The only album track not recorded at the Paris studio was “Winter Solstice,” inspired by Mars’ experiences of living in the bitterly divided United States and featuring his stream-of-conscious ruminations atop what was at first a long loop without a chorus: “Turn the lights on / Find me a narrative / Something positive / This requiem played a few times before.”

Phoenix begins a North American tour tonight (Sept. 7) in Chicago. A European leg starts Nov. 16 in London and wraps with sold-out hometown shows in Paris on Nov. 28-29.



Here is the track list for Alpha Zulu:

“Alpha Zulu”
“Tonight” featuring Ezra Koenig
“The Only One”
“After Midnight”
“Winter Solstice”
“Season 2”
“Artefact”
“All Eyes on Me”
“My Elixir”
“Identical”
https://www.spin.com/2022/09/phoenix...m-ezra-koenig/
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I am loving the shit out of the new album Alpha Zulu.

So nice and concise at 10 tracks, 35 minutes. Not a bad song on it.

I think this ranks among their best works overall.
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Re: Phoenix -- Discussion Thread

I was cautious about this album because I didn't want to be disappointed. Finally watched the Tonight and After Midnight videos. This band is just ridiculously good and infallible.

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