
The new album from so-called 'Coppola-lovers' (getit? one of them is married to Sophie Coppola! GETIT?) french band Phoenix is actually rather good. Yeah, 1901 has been posted around and around the blogs recently as it has been given away as a free single. And it's pretty darn fantastic. So it deserves the spotlight, however it is only part of a ten-song album full of musical brilliance. Their three year absence of recording new material (last album came out May 2006) has obviously let them have to time to develop this brilliant sound. It's upbeat, cheery music, [...]