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Phoenix, Picture House, Edinburgh
Phoenix, Picture House, Edinburgh
The song remains the same for French popsters
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Phoenix: 'The interplay between precision and playfulness was almost entirely lost.'
The French have got serious form when it comes to twisting the determinedly uncool into something hip, a fact Phoenix illustrated so winningly last year with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, a beautifully crafted album of mid-tempo soft rock which lounged dreamily in some critic-proof holding area between the mid-Seventies and early Eighties.
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