Phoenix just appeared to have made an album that variously sounded like Peter Frampton and Oingo Boingo, a move suggesting that talk of a sudden revision in Gallic musical cool had perhaps been over-egged. When their debut album United emerged in 2000, the only other major artists displaying remotely similar musical interests were Daft Punk, with whose members Phoenix guitarist Laurent Brancowitz had once collaborated in a short-lived indie band called Darlin'.īut Daft Punk's love of 70s AM rock and slick 80s pop was refracted through dance music: the electronics lent a cool detachment, a sense of knowing distance from their source material. Before Guilty Pleasures, Scissor Sisters and the Feeling, the Versailles quartet were offering a blend of two deeply unfashionable musics: soft rock and the kind of synth-heavy pop-rock that turned up a lot on the soundtrack of 80s teen movies. P hoenix offer an object lesson in the perils of being ahead of the curve.
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