When Liz Lemon recently used the classic ‘like a phoenix rising from the ashes’ line, I’d like to think that she was making a thinly veiled reference to the band I’m about to bring to the Muffin bakery (she was in fact extolling the life-changing possibilities presented by a new container store on 5th Ave.)  If you’ve read a music blog in the last month or so, you have undoubtedly heard the hype over Phoenix and their upcoming album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.  Not due out until May 25th(!) the album has already traveled to the ends of internet and back a few million times, and I’m here to tell you that the hype is well founded. The French rock/pop group has managed to create some irresistibly catchy songs that somehow magnificently capture that feeling of anxious excitement that marks the turning of seasons. Included below are two cuts to get you pumped for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of which (1901) I have listened to approximately 38 times a day for the last week. So throw on some wayfarers, crank those speakers and listen to the real Phoenix sons.

Phoenix – 1901

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Phoenix – Lisztomania

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