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migrated from Europe to North America hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with French band Phoenix who do you guys
consider to be some of your main
influences or who did you grow up
listening to I think we grew up
listening to two different kinds of
bands there were some that everyone
liked like your grandma cuz I like the
Beatles and then there was something
that we felt they were writing songs for
us you know like My Bloody Valentine or
Stone Roses or teenage thank you felt
this special link like if your parents
would listen to it they would think it’s
just noise
is it accurate to say that you guys kind
of grew up out of the Parisian techno
scene we took a lot from this energy and
it was a way of freedom with electronic
music you can do an album on your own
without any help so that’s what we we
grew up with this culture of doing
everything to do it yourself approach of
art we never went in a real studio it’s
the last place we go we still have the
same places environment when you were a
teenager see the studio the same it’s
very unprofessional but it’s exactly
what we want do you think it’s an
advantage or a disadvantage to be
singing in your second language it’s the
best advantage for us we’d never even
choose to sing in English it was just
like opera was in Italian live you know
it’s just the language of the music
wandering
I heard that the writing process for the
latest album was kind of unique you want
to tell us more about that it’s always a
mystery to us how we write a song
because we never want to know how we
write the song we really spend a lot of
time to be in a state where you don’t
really control what you’re doing almost
like you get your ego tired to get your
body tired you reach a level you can
come up with something that’s pure and
the way I’ve heard people say that you
keep reinventing yourselves you consider
this to be true process yeah it’s at the
end the result maybe not the last album
we were far from home we did it in two
months this one with our home and we did
it in three years totally opposite way
but at the end it’s still Phoenix
this goes discuss discuss discuss
discuss this girl
do you think it’s ballsy to name your
album after one of history’s most famous
composers yeah it is ballsy that’s what
we like about it we knew people are
gonna think we’re very pretentious when
y’all been that’s the next thing you
don’t really care what other people
think it’s y’all record you just do it
the way you think it’s good I mean it’s
good in a way that people dislike it all
all of it it’s nice to divide people and
then it’s so pretentious that for us
it’s really obvious that it’s not it
reaches a level of attention that’s over
the top what is it about instrumentals
that introduce you guys
it’s Romero’s seems to be the form of
music that transcends the most every
album we’ve got one instrument and one
of them we are I think every musician
it’s very stupid rules and we have many
they seem very stupid for other people
but for us they are not just little
thing that helps us like we have 10
songs on the record
it helps us finish the record we always
change the second loss it’s very
different than the four ounces more
details like that maybe when they will
change the whole thing but it’s nice
because it’s a little balance in the
giant chaos
thank you very much guys thank you thank
you
migrated from Europe to North America hi
I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with French band Phoenix who do you guys
consider to be some of your main
influences or who did you grow up
listening to I think we grew up
listening to two different kinds of
bands there were some that everyone
liked like your grandma cuz I like the
Beatles and then there was something
that we felt they were writing songs for
us you know like My Bloody Valentine or
Stone Roses or teenage thank you felt
this special link like if your parents
would listen to it they would think it’s
just noise
is it accurate to say that you guys kind
of grew up out of the Parisian techno
scene we took a lot from this energy and
it was a way of freedom with electronic
music you can do an album on your own
without any help so that’s what we we
grew up with this culture of doing
everything to do it yourself approach of
art we never went in a real studio it’s
the last place we go we still have the
same places environment when you were a
teenager see the studio the same it’s
very unprofessional but it’s exactly
what we want do you think it’s an
advantage or a disadvantage to be
singing in your second language it’s the
best advantage for us we’d never even
choose to sing in English it was just
like opera was in Italian live you know
it’s just the language of the music
wandering
I heard that the writing process for the
latest album was kind of unique you want
to tell us more about that it’s always a
mystery to us how we write a song
because we never want to know how we
write the song we really spend a lot of
time to be in a state where you don’t
really control what you’re doing almost
like you get your ego tired to get your
body tired you reach a level you can
come up with something that’s pure and
the way I’ve heard people say that you
keep reinventing yourselves you consider
this to be true process yeah it’s at the
end the result maybe not the last album
we were far from home we did it in two
months this one with our home and we did
it in three years totally opposite way
but at the end it’s still Phoenix
this goes discuss discuss discuss
discuss this girl
do you think it’s ballsy to name your
album after one of history’s most famous
composers yeah it is ballsy that’s what
we like about it we knew people are
gonna think we’re very pretentious when
y’all been that’s the next thing you
don’t really care what other people
think it’s y’all record you just do it
the way you think it’s good I mean it’s
good in a way that people dislike it all
all of it it’s nice to divide people and
then it’s so pretentious that for us
it’s really obvious that it’s not it
reaches a level of attention that’s over
the top what is it about instrumentals
that introduce you guys
it’s Romero’s seems to be the form of
music that transcends the most every
album we’ve got one instrument and one
of them we are I think every musician
it’s very stupid rules and we have many
they seem very stupid for other people
but for us they are not just little
thing that helps us like we have 10
songs on the record
it helps us finish the record we always
change the second loss it’s very
different than the four ounces more
details like that maybe when they will
change the whole thing but it’s nice
because it’s a little balance in the
giant chaos
thank you very much guys thank you thank
you
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