2000s-era indie rock lovers rejoice: Phoenix has launched a brand new tune, “Tonight,” that includes vocals from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. The observe will seem on Phoenix’s new album, Alpha Zulu, which will likely be launched Nov. 4 on Loyaute/Glassnote Information.
Within the Oscar Boyson-directed video, Phoenix’s members go about their day by day enterprise in Paris whereas Koenig does the identical through split-screen from Tokyo. The observe is a primary for Phoenix in that the long-running French group has by no means featured one other vocalist on one among its songs till now.
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Alpha Zulu was produced by Phoenix and recorded in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs contained in the Palais du Louvre. “We felt it will be a implausible journey to create one thing out of nothing in a museum,” guitarist/keyboardist Laurent Brancowitz says. “And so with the pandemic, we may dwell precisely this scene — to be alone in an empty museum.”
“I used to be a bit afraid, when there was an excessive amount of magnificence round us, that to create one thing may very well be a bit exhausting,” provides guitarist Christian Mazzalai. “However it was the alternative: we couldn’t cease producing music. In these first 10 days, we wrote nearly all the album.”
Alpha Zulu is infused with the spirit of longtime collaborator Philippe Zdar, who handed away in 2019 after falling from a Paris constructing. “We had many moments the place we may really feel his concepts,” Mazzalai says of Zdar. The album opens with its title observe, which was launched as a single at first of the summer time and rapidly grew to become a dwell favourite. It closes with “An identical,” which beforehand appeared within the 2020 movie On the Rocks, directed by Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars’ spouse Sofia Coppola.
The one album observe not recorded on the Paris studio was “Winter Solstice,” impressed by Mars’ experiences of residing within the bitterly divided United States and that includes his stream-of-conscious ruminations atop what was at first a protracted loop and not using a refrain: “Flip the lights on / Discover me a story / One thing optimistic / This requiem performed a couple of occasions earlier than.”
Phoenix begins a North American tour tonight (Sept. 7) in Chicago. A European leg begins Nov. 16 in London and wraps with sold-out hometown exhibits in Paris on Nov. 28-29.
Right here is the observe checklist for Alpha Zulu:
“Alpha Zulu”
“Tonight” that includes Ezra Koenig
“The Solely One”
“After Midnight”
“Winter Solstice”
“Season 2”
“Artefact”
“All Eyes on Me”
“My Elixir”
“An identical”
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