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June 15th, 2017 3:05am

Wreck The Spectacle You Live In


Phoenix “Tuttifrutti”

The new Phoenix album is meant to be an escapist fantasy, a dreamy European wonderland of a piece with the romanticized luxury of Thomas Mars’ wife Sophia Coppola’s body of work. But just as the surface aesthetic of her films are a front for directionless melancholy, Mars’ words undermine the up tempo summer vibes of his band’s music. “Tuttifrutti” in particular builds up a fantasy of wealth and indulgence just to imagine what it’d be like to tear it apart. There’s a resentful tone in his phrases – “don’t tell the broken hearted ‘that’s what you get’” – but there’s no clear narrative. It’s just a vivid setting and a relatable feeling, and the aesthetic is overpowering enough that the sentiment is relatively subtle.

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  1. Trumpet Grrrl says:

    I rarely do know what he’s talking about but one of the things I’ve always loved about Phoenix is the juxtapositions. Such driving energy in the music, yet so soft and delicate at the same!


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