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Album Review: Phoenix - Bankrupt!

- Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

What exactly constitutes a festival "headliner" hasn't really been an issue until recently, but no artist has ever raised more skepticism regarding their headlining slot at Coachella 2013 than Phoenix.

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Bankrupt!

- Source: Under The Radar Magazine

In certain circles there has been a quiet suspicion for a few years now that European pop music has made its way under the radar to a place a million miles ahead of its American and British contemporaries: we offer up the catchy but interchangeable, indistinguishable, and disposable ideas, Europe gives us the likes of Versailles's Phoenix.

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Album: Phoenix, Bankrupt! (V2)

- Source: The Independent - Music

The fifth album by the intermittently popular but strangely anonymous French band is probably the most overtly pop, with their electronic elements brought to the fore (particularly on "Drakkar Noir" and "Chloroform"), and the winsome sentimentality of Thomas Mars' vocals ramped up.

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Phoenix

- Source: The Music Mix

From the first punching chime of �Entertainment� it�s clear that Phoenix , Gallic pop-rock superstars are back, and, contrarily, they mean business.

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Phoenix Bring Out R. Kelly for Coachella Headlining Set

- Source: Rolling Stone

About three-quarters of the way through the band's joyous, two-years-in-the-making headlining set, R. Kelly – the Chicago R&B star who shares little if anything in common with the French rockers – belted one of his best known lyrics from offstage, shocking virtually everyone: "My mind's telling me no! But my body . . . my body's telling me yes!"

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Premature Evaluation: Phoenix Bankrupt!

- Source: Stereogum

In his beautiful eulogy for My Chemical Romance, Grantland's Andy Greenwald made much of that band's outsize ambition, and lamented the general dissolution of such ambition among other rock bands of recent vintage.

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Phoenix Bring Out R. Kelly for Triumphant Coachella Headlining Set

- Source: Rolling Stone

About three-quarters of the way through the band's joyous, two-years-in-the-making headlining set, R. Kelly – the Chicago R&B star who shares little if anything in common with the French rockers – belted one of his best known lyrics from offstage, shocking virtually everyone: "My mind's telling me no! But my body . . . my body's telling me yes!"

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Phoenix @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg, 4/5/13

- Source: Stereogum

It was a little after 6 p.m. when Jeff Regan, program director for Sirius XM's Alt Nation channel, walked onto the stage at Brooklyn's Music Hall Of Williamsburg to introduce Phoenix — and over the course of that announcement, he told the crowd to make noise, to sing along to the songs we knew.

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