Phoenix’s stunning fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, out in the U.S. on May 26th, is the result of much toil. Music this beautiful doesn’t just spring from musicians’ heads. For the four Frenchmen in Phoenix, it began with finding the right place to record, which proved to be their first big obstacle. There were failed attempts to find inspiration on a boat floating along the Sienne with a view of the Eiffel Tower, at New York’s Bowery Hotel and another three weeks in a rented New York apartment.

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