They’re this year’s most exciting European import, and they’ve been setting indie rock hearts aflutter ever since the release of their 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. With remixes appearing all over the web this summer, it seemed like everyone was getting on the Phoenix bandwagon.
Enter the Remix Collection. Featuring a roster of other indie favorites like Animal Collective, Passion Pit, and Chairlift, the remixes are almost as much fun as the original.
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Remix fever—typically a contagion afflicting the realm of Top 40 radio—has gripped indie music. French disco-pop outfit Phoenix’s 2009 album—the acclaimed (and modestly-titled) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix—gets the remix treatment from some of the biggest names in underground music in a digital-only album due October 20 and includes reworked versions of album tracks by Animal Collective, Passion Pit, Friendly Fires, Chairlift, Devendra Banhart and Yacht.
Yeah, you heard right: Animal Collective. The band with one of the most-acclaimed indie releases of the year have taken on the biggest breakthrough band of 2009. Be sure to have a towel ready when you tell your hipster friend.
And then, a new morning, a new remix: today brought Animal Collective’s try — notably, the oft forgotten member, “Deakin’s Jam.” These guys took on “Love Like A Sunset,” adding their own vocals and hollowing it out with whorls and lap top twitches. Deakin wrote on Phoenix’s blog that his inspiration was a trip he took, scuba diving in Panama with their music fresh in his mind. This is exactly what the remix sounds like: Phoenix, as heard in the mind of a submerged Animal Collective member.
Check out Phoenix in this interview with last.fm, backstage at Bonnaroo 2009 after their incredible performance in the What? Tent.
TRACKLIST
1. Lisztomania (Alex Metric remix)
2. Fences (The Soft Pack remix)
3. 1901 Bo Flex’d (Passion Pit remix)
4. Lasso (2 Door Cinema Club remix)
5. Fences (25 Hrs A Day remix)
6. 1901 (L’aiglon remix)
7. Love Like A Sunset (Turzi remix)
8. Fences (Boombass remix)
9. Lisztomania (A Fight For Love – 25 Hrs A Day remix)
10. Fences (Friendly Fires remix)
11. Armistice (Yacht remix)
12. Girlfriend (Young Fathers remix)
13. Fences (Chairlift remix)
14. Rome (Neighbours with Devendra Banhart)
15. Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective remix)
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