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PHOENIX - It's Never Been Like That
| AV Club |
| For almost a decade, French guitar-pop band Phoenix has been haphazardly balancing theory and pleasure, coming on one moment like rhythm-for-rhythm's-sake conceptualizer Spoon, and the next like disco-fied '70 soft-rocker Starbuck. Phoenix's first two studio albums—2000's United and 2004's Alphabetical—were dotted with quick bursts of giddy, danceable music, but a lot of the songs sounded dryly conceptual, and Phoenix didn't come across as fully engaged until last year's rocked-up live album Thirty Days Ago....full text |
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| MusicOMH.com |
| Calling any modern guitar band retro has about as much critical use as revealing that the humble oak is wood-derived. Requiring neither beetle-browed bark nor angst-ridden bite, Phoenix's pastel-shaded pop-rock is perennially tagged with reviving a sleeve-rolled sheen stretching from Fleetwood Supertramps to R.E.O Miller Bands....full text |
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| PrefixMag |
| This sound shouldn't work any more. It's too easy. Too straightforward. The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon and all who came in their wake and ripped off their style should have maxed out no-frills riff-rock's credit account. This shouldn't work anymore....full text |
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