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| From | scotthomewood@cs.com |
| Subject | Re: Phoenix? |
| Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:55 -0500 |
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Didn't Bill Murray do that movie with Sofia Lost In Translation? There's your SNL link.
Homewood
-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: audities@smoe.org
Cc: audities@smoe.org
Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: Phoenix?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Coxe" <popville@gmail.com>
>> I get what you're saying about the Scandinavian influence, but the >> main
>> thing I hear in Phoenix is the Blur wing of the mid-'90s Britpop >> bands.
>
> And who might that be? Admitted non-Blur listener, for no other > reason
> than I skipped the brit-pop scene, as with grunge before it.
There's a fair amount of Blur themselves, but I also get reminded of bands like Menswear and Space, who had some great gimmicky singles but didn't really hold up over the course of a full album. A touch of early Portishead too, from the same era but a slightly different scene.
It helps that WAP is their best album so far by some distance, but the main difference this time is that they've signed to a new label whose owner did a very good job of hyping them outside the traditional music press: they got a lot of buzz early this year in the fashion press, helped considerably by the fact that the singer is a good looking guy who has hipster cred by marriage, being Sofia Copolla's husband. Not sure what favors he called in to get them the SNL booking before the album even came out, though.
S
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