It’s deceptively simple and unshakably catchy, as is taster single, 1901, which follows on. New single Lisztomania (a phrase coined to describe the publics reaction to performances by piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, fact fans) kicks things off in typically unrestrained fashion, an insistent guitar motif rings out whilst behind it a drumbeat taps out a rhythm like a metronome.

Many of the 10 tracks here (the album zips by in just over half an hour) recall the pop perfection of their debut, Untitled, all slinky basslines, furious rhythmic guitar, warm keyboard washes and Mars’ laidback croon. Leaving aside their connections, the brilliantly-titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is a big leap forward after 2006’s pedestrian It’s Never Been Like That, an album that stripped away the bells and whistles to leave sparse, downbeat rock. This, their fourth album, is co-produced by Cassius‘s Philippe Zdar. Originally formed as a backing band for a remix of Air‘s Kelly Watch The Stars, they previously shared band members with Daft Punk, their single Too Young appeared in Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation (singer Thomas Mars is dating the director) and the photographs for their second album Everything Is Everything were shot by fashion designer and rock star wannabe, Hedi Slimane. If this is true, then France’s Phoenix should really be the biggest band on the planet.

They say it’s not what you know, but who you know.

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