Essentially, the record finds Phoenix doing what they do supremely well – danceable indie-pop with touches of shoegaze guitar and ambient electro.

Phoenix are often mentioned in the same breath as fellow Frenchmen Daft Punk and Air, and they certainly incorporate some shades of electronic pop and disco...

In which prominent musicians fondle their crystal balls and deliver their World Cup predicitions.

Oh, how we adore Phoenix, high-priests of Parisian easy listening and a band that recognizes the difference between louche and sleazy. Word was that, after...

Aristocrats of sophisticated French pop, Phoenix have abandoned their refined stylings and begun mixing it with the indie-rock great unwashed.

Like the Alphabet album that provides its home, ‘Everything Is Everything’ has a lovely timbre to it, a just right mix of the electronic and the organic...

France’s Phoenix have left the Air and Daft Punk comparisons behind on their gorgeous new album. Phil Udell finds out how and why from Thomas Mars.

Alphabetical certainly picks up where United left us; the Americana idiom is still there, juxtaposed with drum machines, synths and playful pop structures.

Like most French bands, Parisian four-piece Phoenix couldn't give a toss about musical fashions or fads.