Go to iTunes, or Best Buy, or your local independent music store, and buy Phoenix's new album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. In fact, stop reading. go RIGHT NOW and get it. I'll wait...
What took you so long? Now, do this: listen to the first minute of each song. Now go back and listen to every song, start to finish. Brilliant, aren't they? Every one of them. Even the ambient techno kinda experiments aren't awful.
This just may be album of the year. Much like a band like, oh, Radiohead, Phoenix has a distinctive sound - plaintive high pitched vocals, (and I mean that as a compliment), really well done synthesizer work, propulsive rhythm section...I can't take this thing off the iTunes. I just can't. I'm even forgiving the fact that they're pretty French boys, but I'm sure for some of you, that's a huge bonus, too.
All right, I'm done gushing. If you haven't gone and bought it by now, well...you're just dumb. Sorry, but it's true. Go get it. Soon.
edit on 5/27: ok, so the ambient 'love like sunshine pt. 1 and pt. 2' aren't the GREATEST thing i've ever heard. I'll admit it, I got swept up in the great Phoenixian (is that a word? it is NOW) wave of pop hysteria. But I'll stop by saying there's not a dog on the album after those - and they're not the worst things ever. They just aren't up to the rest of the album...
and cause my brother is whiny baby: armistice
Where's the music, jackass?
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