Phoenix - Long Distance Call Video

Phoenix
Long Distance Call
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Virgin Records will be releasing Phoenix's new single, 'Long Distance Call' on May 8th. 'Long Distance Call' is one of the jump out tracks from their new album 'It's Never Been Like That'. A bracing guitar intro segues into a stop start verse that is punctuated by one of those keyboard motifs that Phoenix seem so effortlessly to dust off from a synthesized archive. The chorus is a defiant plea for their intention of starting over. The mosh pit ought to be alerted.

The new album 'Its never been like that' is due to be releases on May 15th & when they say It's Never Been Like That, they mean it. "This was about starting all over," says Thomas Mars, Phoenix's photogenic mouthpiece, stumbling across a cross fader in their Versailles studio, "it was about making ourselves scared again." If there is precisely the kind of scrubbed-up freshness you might expect to hear on a particularly striking debut album to the four-strong Frenchmen's third record, there is a reason for that. They attacked it as though they had never recorded together before. But there is no accounting for musical telepathy. Something gelled.

Catch Pheonix on tour:
Sat 27-May-06 Brighton, Concord
Sun 28-May-06 Manchester Acad 3
Mon 29-May-06 Nottingham, Rescue Room
Tues 30-May-06 Glasgow, King tuts
Weds 31-May-06 London, Mean fiddler