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It's Never Been Like That
Third album from French indie rock band, who rose to prominence when their track, 'Too Young' (from their debut album, United), was featured on the soundtrack to 'Lost In Translation'. EMI. 2006.
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After avoiding the sophomore slump with relative ease, Phoenix return with their third release stripped of the post-disco house sound that helped to define them, focusing more on the songwriting side of things than any sort of dancefloor-focused groove. In fact, it takes until the fourth song, "Long Distance Call," for anything resembling a dancefloor beat to appear, and when it does it feels like an epilogue to the wonderful "If I Ever Feel Better" off the group's debut record. The band has definitely...
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HA!!! i've heard this band before! just never knew who they were...hmmm...i like it....good summer music. kinda dancey and ambient...yet indie rock like the strokes or modest mouse-ish. awesome...and i think i need it :)
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CMJ (p.6) - "[The album] showcases Phoenix's most haute-blooded guitar riffs. Freed from dancefloor expectations and no longer relegated to chic background music, Phoenix have made their most fully realized record yet."
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CDs. Phoenix: It's Never Been Like That
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Phoenix are four Parisian childhood friends who set out last summer to write, record and produce their third album with no outside participation and no compromises. They settled in East Berlin, the only truly Bohemian European city left, in a studio haunted by the ghosts of a former state radio. In the post-Bauhaus architectural extravagance and unreal surroundings, they put themselves to the task of writing as they recorded, with no idea as to what it might feel or sound like. This time, it was...
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Phoenix are four Parisian childhood friends who set out last summer to write, record and produce their third album with no outside participation and no compromises. They settled in East Berlin, the only truly Bohemian European city left, in a studio haunted by the ghosts of a former state radio. In the post-Bauhaus architectural extravagance and unreal surroundings, they put themselves to the task of writing as they recorded, with no idea as to what it might feel or sound like. This time, it was...
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Notes: Phoenix/Phoenix: Thomas Mars (vocals); Christian Mazzalai, Laurent Brancowitz (guitar); Deck d'Arcy (bass guitar). Additional personnel: Prince Amethyste, Sebastian Schmidt, Thomas Hedlund. With its third album, French pop group Phoenix heads away from the dance floor and toward a crisp, guitar-based sound more in line with the Strokes. While the lighthearted 1980s-flavored beats that make Phoenix's music so enjoyable are still in place, they are carefully countered with a jangly slacker aesthetic...
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Phoenix try to explain Its Never Been Like That over a "Long Distance Phone Call" on the third studio album from the French alt rockers. © 2006 Virgin
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