“Let me get this straight. The world is going "bankrupt" whatever the hell that means because of this idea called "debt" which doesn't even exist in the physical reality. It's only part of a game we've invented... and yet the well being of billions of people is now being compromised. Extreme layoffs, tent cities, accelerating poverty, austerity measures imposed, schools shutting down, child hunger and other levels of familial deprivation- ... all because of this elaborate fiction... What are we, fucking stupid?!”

—Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.

Phoenix - Entertainment

Entertainment — Phoenix

The first single off of their upcoming 2013 release ‘Bankrupt!’.

Phoenix - Entertainment

Phoenix’s new song, Entertainment

Chloroform

Phoenix

Phoenix - Chloroform

Bourgeois

Phoenix

Bourgeois - Phoenix

57/∞ [infinite days of music]

The Real Thing

Phoenix

The Real Thing // Phoenix

Bourgeois

Phoenix

Bourgeois, why would you care for more?
They give you almost everything.
You believed almost anything.
Bourgeois, you fire’s a false alarm.
They give you almost everything.
You believed almost anything.

My favorite song off the album and favorite song of the moment. I got caught singing it with all my heart at work today.

“When one sells principle for popularity, he is soon bankrupt.”

—

Trying To Be Cool

Phoenix

Phoenix - “Trying To Be Cool”

No band in recent memory has risen to fame as quickly and as late in their career as Phoenix. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix elevated them above all power pop groups and Bankrupt! sees them taking that a step further and making more complex and aesthetically-jarring music. Funny enough, one of the best songs from the new album is one that sounds most like classic Thomas Mars, singing with his trademark nonchalant charm.