Reviewed by: Nick Southall
Excerpt: English language pop often suffers at the tongues and dictionaries of non-native speakers who treat the idiom with too much reverence, afraid to corrupt it for the sake of imagination or insinuation, but this isn’t a problem for Phoenix.
Produced by Phoenix and recorded “in our basementâ€, Alphabetical is typified by sweet harmonies, gently understated melodies and easy rhythms, adding up to create a sense of almost complete weightlessness, but a rich, detailed and solid weightlessness, uplifting and gloriously at odds with the potential ontological emptiness of the lyrics.
MP3: By Phoenix - Everything is Everything & Long Distance CallÂ
ALVIN
(this post somehow relates to my discussion of porn on myspace) (no reflection intended on the great band Phoenix)
