Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Working out and listening to this and taking a break to let y'all know that I love it!

"Trying to Be Cool." That's what is playing right now. It's the shit.

Paves wrote:"Trying to Be Cool." That's what is playing right now. It's the shit.

Great song title

This is one of those bands like Weezer where I can really corner myself into a space where I don't listen to anything but their music. Hasn't happened in a while. But these songs are reminding me why. A song called "Chloroform" is playing right now and it has like a million golden hooks. This band shits 'em out left and right.

Very slowly downloading right now... Quite looking forward to this.

Anyone know if there's a better quality rip yet? The "obviously an inferior quality early leak" sound has limited appeal for me, personally.

^otm

You don't bring a dog to a dinner party.

i love the lyrics on this so much and i don't understand half of them

having a bit of a love affair with the song "Bankrupt!" today

their wonky and stupid multi-part suite songs just warm my heart

I'm not sure why this exists, but it's pretty good. It's a full-on cover, not a remix.

the discerning musical mind of J Mascis knows the true beauty of the song "Entertainment!" and wants to share it with the world

this album rules. sounds like wang chung

This one's pretty interesting & great.

its a good record

Streamed it on iTunes, so I dunno individual song titles, but I recall enjoying some of the mid/late album burners. That first single does nothing for me; production is so obnoxiously in the red. This version is way better:

going all out on promoting this in hipster town:

my problem with these album is that all their shitty instrements blend into together. i think i know what yancy's talking about. it sounds like some sort of indie rock porridge

phenomenal album, it went up on Spotify today with the "71 Sketches from the Bankrupt! Sessions" as a single 64-minute track. sounds fantastic. also has a companion "Commentary Album" where you get French dudes trying to explain the origin of these songs in 45 seconds.

my AOTY, but i guess i can see why people don't dig the loudness war/technicolor clusterfuck production.

jasperness wrote:"71 Sketches from the Bankrupt! Sessions" as a single 64-minute track

Very good chance that will be my favorite part of the package. Thanks for the heads up.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/liveonletterman/artist/217351/phoenix/

Live right now. Sounding pretty great! Will be available later at cbs.com and vevo.

Maybe it's because I'm happy to be chair dancing to any music after what happened 21 hours ago, but that was fucking great.

Sausage wrote:my problem with these album is that all their shitty instrements blend into together. i think i know what yancy's talking about. it sounds like some sort of indie rock porridge

I agree with this. Very disappointing album.

Sausage wrote:my problem with these album is that all their shitty instrements blend into together. i think i know what yancy's talking about. it sounds like some sort of indie rock porridge

^way to go full Rockism on us old dude

#pinkfloyd wrote:I agree with this. Very disappointing album.

& British dude

i don't necessarily disagree about the "porridge" comment in that all the textures are pretty smooth and blend and fade into each other real well. i would just challenge that idea that it's intrinsically wrong that you can't distinguish each instrumental track on the record (and who knows what or how many instruments they even used?).

the production on Phoenix albums has been criticized every time they have a new release which makes this frequent line of "disappointment" all the less weighty. and the fact that Bankrupt! is closer is sound and feel to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix than Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is to It's Never Been Like That furthers my confusion. guess people are over Yacht Rock.