Four Parisian boys with brotherly love, set out for Berlin last summer, settling down at Planet Roc studios, in former East Germany, without a single song written but determined to write, record and produce their third album themselves with no outside participation and no compromises. It's Never Been Like That was conceived with a live mentality, in a straight line, summing up a lot of the band's emotions and past experiences, sometimes conflicting, often disrupting. All the songs are autobiographic    [ read more ]

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To write their new album, titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix decamped to various locales away from their home studio in Versailles, searching for the stimulus necessary to transform the new material into a coherent LP. The results collected on Wolfgang demonstrate a kind of deliberate, considered approach, and in turn, they've created what is the best album in their already-amazing catalog. Featuring the band's signature melding of synthetics and organics, of sharp, danceable rhythms a   [ read more ]

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The follow-up to Phoenix's smash United, which became a bestseller due to the band's inclusion in Sofia Coppola's movie, Lost In Translation. Like its predecessor, Alphabetical is once again an ambitious and groundbreaking musical hybrid, drawing on hip-hop and R&B rhythms, acoustic soul and rock. Add to that the seductive voice of Thomas Mars (who sang on Air's classic song "Playground Love"), the production smarts of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Turin Brakes, Air), and some outstanding songwriting, an   [ read more ]

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