Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix will be out May 25 in Europe and out the 26th in the US on Glassnote. The first single will be "Lisztomania."

1 Lisztomania
2 1901
3 Fences
4 Love Like A Sunset Pt. 1
5 Love Like A Sunset Pt. 2
6 Lasso
7 Rome
8 Countdown
9 Girlfriend
10 Armistice

the cover is retarded

yes, that certainly is a shitty cover. song's ok, though.

yeah it's okay, kinda wish they'd stuck w/ the unobtrusive super-bright guitars of the last album but everyone's all dancey now so what the fuck ever

i still think this is gonna be dope tho

*raises fist*

by unobtrusive i meant unobscured or something

Haven't heard the music, but I like Phoenix. And I like the classical references. A good sign, usually. :)

kinda weird to say 'everyone's all dancey now' like phoenix havent been doing that thing since their first album

The last album was an exception, but also worked less than their first two albums. So better if they go back the the formula of those two.

single is fucking awesome

Yeah, I dunno, the single goes by without doing much of anything to me, but then again I thought Long Distance Call was lacking at first and eventually I grew to love the record from which it sprang forth, so...

I'm sort of disappointed with the "dance rock" farty sonic cliches that turn up in the single, but again, but. but...they seem to have hit upon some magic formula that allows them to get away with all manner of otherwise egregioustuff irregardless of how it initially hits my ears

I wish Sebastien Tellier would be so consistent

The cover artwork is awesome in the same crappy way that the last record's was. That being said, I'll always love the artwork for Alphabetical w/o any reservations or qualifications whatsoever.

i love the title!!

can someone ysi me the single

kinda weird to say 'everyone's all dancey now' like phoenix havent been doing that thing since their first album

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yeah but this is way diff than their lounge disco days

yeah yr right. i wish those lounge disco days would return.

s1ocki you can DL the single from http://www.wearephoenix.com/

1901 is killing me softly for a while now

Rally is their finest moment imo

The last album was an exception, but also worked less than their first two albums.

Their last album was the best album of 2006. I am interested in hearing this.

This album will kill

did not expect to be loving 1901 the way i am. the song so good it needed not one but 2 awesome choruses! and it's short. so so good. hope the rest is.

Still looking forward to this; still utterly baffled that they're sharing a label with Riskay.

psyched!

I'm surprised the GREAT track "Twenty-One One Zero" for Cartier LOVE - described earlier as a preview of the new album - isn't on the tracklist:

Of course maybe it's been re-titled?

That is great!

not sure about the artwork but i love the single "1901."

http://www.wearephoenix.com/extras/facebook/wap_facebook.jpg

http://www.buzzgrinder.com/images/album-leak.jpg

LEAKED! PSYCHED!

for the love of god webmail me!!!!!!!!!!!

its fecking awes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v457/janetlovesu/you_got_it_dude.jpg

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omg, sendspace almost never works! Thanks man!

Works like a charm for me, nae bother! :)

That "Twenty-One One Zero" track is on the album.

Blown off my socks! Didn't expect anything else, but still. Massive.

Exactly what I expected in a giddy, perfect way.

'Girlfriend' is absolutely glorious

yeah, I'm just there too!

spose it's this album's North?

yes, girlfriend

Seems like it, though Girlfriend sounds even more 'focused', it's crafted in a way that you'd forget it's crafted in the first place! It's musical architecture at it's top, like the most beautiful building you've ever seen yet didn't realize it because well, it's a building. The best things go unnoticed. It's such a long track in Phoenix-terms, yet it seems to fly by in two minutes. Don't know if I'm making sense at all, but this is just so perfect!

someone hook me up? :D

lol cutty i cant see your email address in that email

OH NOES

d/l now, thanks for the heads up ILM!

not finding it :-(

:-) :-) :-)

not finding it too ;)

Does anyone know the correct tracklist? I can't seem to find it (stupid pfork timing out on me)

from the blog i got it off:

01 Lisztomania
02 1901
03 Fences
04 Love Like A Sunset Pt. 1
05 Love Like A Sunset Pt. 2
06 Lasso
07 Rome
08 Countdown
09 Girlfriend
10 Armistice

Ah, I've got a wrong version then (wrong songtitles), but this is so so so great <3

yeah i could get it, so i no

Does this direct link work? http://wearephoenix.com/observer/ (Trying to save interested parties from having to register to receive the Guardian's spam)

that works - ta!

if anyone fancies making a remix, have at it.

"listzomania," vocals and all, sounds like an of montreal outtake circa sundlandic twins

haha

of Montreal isn't the band i think of while listening to that song. maybe i heard it too many times to think of anyone else but Phoenix.

Maybe what makes the difference is that Phoenix are doing it right.

Can't stand the wimpy vocals.

The vocals bit may be a bit Of Montreal. But surely, the production on Phoenix albums is considerably smoother than on anything by Of Montreal.

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Picked this up recently. Really think it's quite good. I finally feel old enough that I can let go of whatever baggage I would have had about a band/record like this at one point.

Out of curiosity, what baggage would that have been?

I think a few years ago I would have found this record too whiny/schmindie/of its moment. I don't know though, I'm kind of drunk tbh.

Whiny? Schmindie? It's a straight-up, play it in the car in summer, pop record?

I didn't realize how much "1901" and "Litstzomania" are played on the radio. I'm still not sick of them, but I try to put on my headphones so my Official Summer Album '09 doesn't get tarnished.

should have included "when they come on the radio at work every other hour"

There are some really great little pop details in their songs. Like I love the way in the chorus of Lisztomania the chords are in 1st inversion instead of without the root on the bottom even though there's no bass going -- it's a small thing, but more staid arrangers would just play the chords with the root on the bottom.

Also ballsy to have hit single go right into another hit single.

The DVD that comes with this is great. It's video of the band recording the album accompanied by the actual music, different to your usual 'making of' documentary.

I think my DVD was the vinyl playing with them talking over it (kind of like a commentary track). Very cool and I wished more people did that

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I still think "Lisztomania" is probably their best song. But I must say -- hearing Mars sing live w/o the doubletrack really has taken a bit of the shine off these guys for me.

Phoenix have some nice high points, but I burned out on them really fast. The guy only really has one or two melodies (like Neko Case does) and he flogs them pretty hard. Still nice to hear in little chunks.

Anyone into Phoenix like Field Music? They're like a mathier version of Phoenix, all clean and shiny but with a bit more intricacy and depth. I sometimes get the two bands mixed up momentarily when they come up on shuffle.

I've started to think this album is perfect.

Anyone into Phoenix like Field Music? They're like a mathier version of Phoenix, all clean and shiny but with a bit more intricacy and depth. I sometimes get the two bands mixed up momentarily when they come up on shuffle.

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Is that the Sunderland based Field Music who used to be in Futureheads? I haven't heard any recent stuff but I wouldn't say their 2007 Tones of Town album sounded particularly like Phoenix.

Yeah, the same. And the bands aren't particularly similar, but there's something about them that causes me to mistake one for the other sometimes; they hit the same button in my brain, the one that likes glossy and somewhat cerebral and emotionally detached guitar-pop.

Great album.
Marvelous pop music.
I love the bloke's whiny voice.

Their earlier albums haven't grabbed me yet

'Countdown' reminds me of VU's 'Heroin'tune wise . I think it's the drone element.

totally get how cornball i am/sound, but despite not paying a lot of attention to their lyrics, that "do you remember when 21 years was old?" line in that song kills me everytime.

hurting you should hear the album before this one

Album before this one is my fave for sure. It's some version of 1978 as relayed by That Seventies Show and Daft Punk's Homework.

Also this is one band where I LIKE the sameyness of the melodies -- it gives the album a sense of recurring motifs.

totally get how cornball i am/sound, but despite not paying a lot of attention to their lyrics, that "do you remember when 21 years was old?" line in that song kills me everytime.

OTM - altho I think it's the band/music that makes the line would work - they really do know how to capture that bittersweet feeling of squeezing the last drops of youth - ie. the last days of summer

btw I picked up Field Music - Tones of Town on rec from this thread and I really like it, although I think it scratches a slightly different itch than Phoenix.

This album (WAP) has so many goddamn hooks I can't take it -- many songs have two or three. I walk around singing stuff from this record all day -- "When the lights are cutting out, and I come down in your room," "DIE AND SUCCEEEEEEEEEEEED!" etc.

http://www.offtheradarmusic.com/2011/04/edwin-van-cleef-lisztomania-phoenix.html

Great cover of Lisztomania for download here. Fantastico!

Any news of the new album?

I thought it was supposed to be coming out this year but it's now October and still haven't heard anything.

Bankrupt, then:

http://www.wearephoenix.com/

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/04/30/phoenix-alphabetical-2004-wolfgang-amadeus-phoenix-2009/

New album incoming?

https://www.facebook.com/wearephoenix/

Listening to this tonight, because, well. Such a good album. Love Like a Sunset!

My children now love this album, meaning there are at least like 10 things we can listen to that we all enjoy

You mean the ten songs on this album?

Olympic ceremony made me put this on today after 10 years of not hearing it. Still bangs so hard. Had forgotten all the weird atonal synth bits sprinkled all over.

Was surprised to hear all the (gen z) athletes singing along to 1901. Are kids listening to this?

was pretty happy that "Funky Squaredance" was part of an Olympic closing ceremony.

When they were touring last year with Beck, there was a guy who took some amazing footage at Hartford, CT. (Very front of the crowd, center of stage, with 1080p60 HDR.) He got all of Beck's set and most of Phoenix's - he's since taken down Phoenix's, but I streamed it on my TV and stereo, and it both looked and sounded amazing. Almost everything he captured was from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. For the last number, Mars casually jumped into the crowd and sang the whole song as he walked around them. (Guy's really tall - he towered over everybody.) Made me wish I had seen them - IIRC, the tour had lots of cheap tickets on Stubhub.

I got to high five him at the Toronto show for that tour! My kids got to hear about it several times during the olympics performance

I saw that tour last year in LA. My 10yo son is deeply into Phoenix and it was his first “real” concert. It was so fun. Hilariously it was at the Forum, which is right next door to SoFi Stadium where Taylor Swift was playing on the same night.

Mars did the same thing in LA, walking through the crowd for the last song. The whole set was most of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, maybe half the songs from their newest album, and the rest essentially their greatest hits from the other albums. It was great.

Saw them on then Wolfgang tour and Mars was already doing the jumping into the crowd thing

I feel bemused that I'd never actually noticed that Gordon Tracks is Thomas Mars.