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Phoenix

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 29, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B0001K634G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,463 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The French alternative act's eagerly anticipated sophomore album. EMI. 2004. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising Sophomore Effort, August 20, 2004

By	B Bozarth (USA) - See all my reviews

I just got this album and have been listening to it non-stop. I enjoyed United a great deal thanks to Lost in Translation of course, but Alphabetical is a superb album in many respects. It's happy feel-good music that makes you want to dance! After I play it - I need to play Everything Is Everything and Holdin' It Together one more time. Those are my favorite tracks - then I need to play the whole thing again and again.

I haven't heard anything quite like this group. Each track has a number of different, unique grooves and I love how the lyrics kind of roll with it and play with different styles. It takes a lot of disco, some eighties, and electronica then spins it into a new thing all its' own. Pop at its' finest. This album should be making some waves.

The album is quite good as a whole and much more cohesive. Maybe nothing as memorable as Too Young - United has some super stand out tracks but a couple were off the wall. It's very rare for a second to top the first - to continue the sound but yet take it to new levels. Usually I am disappointed. If you liked the debut, then get this album!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great album from Phoenix, April 21, 2004

By	Rebeka Miller (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

Phoenix is such a dynamic group and they have really suprised me with this new CD of theirs. It's so different from their last one but it absolutely carries the signature of this awesome band. Not many bands can do what Phoenix did and come out with a completely different "groove" on a CD and have it sound better than the first. Phoenix is definitely my favorite band now. My favorite songs on the album are "Love for Granted", "If it's not with you", and "Holdin' on Together". But, the whole album is really good and a totally fun CD to listen to, I highly suggest purchasing it if you are a fan.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fine album Phoenix Alphabetical, February 24, 2005

By	joe larkin (pa) - See all my reviews

Before Air became America's favorite French duo, Phoenix were their backing band. So when the former indie punks from the Paris suburbs debuted with 2000's United, the surprise was that they sounded neither particularly electronic nor French - singer Thomas Mars, who might have hailed from L.A. or London, had the uncanny ability to sing feverishly and tenderly in English. Alphabetical, coming after the quartet's dazzling single "Too Young" fired the karaoke scene in Lost in Translation, extends the band's blurring of '70s pop-rock intimacy and warm rhythms. From "Everything Is Everything" - which jumps with the acoustic sparkle of AM radio - to more contemplative ballads such as "(You Can't Blame It On) Anybody," these songs create a series of vivid but minimal soundscapes.