THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION – NEW DOUBLE ALBUM ‘FANDANGO’ – RELEASED IN THE UK ON 29TH APRIL
NEW DOUBLE ALBUM ‘FANDANGO’ – RELEASED IN THE UK ON 29TH APRIL ON MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES
ARTWORK AND TRACKLISTING REVEALED THE BAND TOUR THE UK TOUR IN MAY
The band will be touring the UK in May (dates below) and have made album highlight ‘The Captain’ available for free download from their site at www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz/fandango. Please use the attached widget code to embed this in any news stories.
The band, who had a critical and commercial hit with 2011’s album ‘Buffalo’ (and which preceded them playing Glastonbury and performing on Later with Jools Holland), have returned with an expansive, bold and gloriously rich statement on ‘Fandango’. The album, an uncompromising 78 minutes, sees the band explore a range of moods and musical threads from the glowering motorik opener of ‘Black Mould’, the slick yacht rock of ‘Sideways Glanc’e and end-of-the-party psyche-folk of ‘Modern Rock’.
The Wellington based six piece’s first cut from the album is ‘The Captain’, a 3 minute ballad of melancholic melodic joy featuring the vocal talents of Lukasz Buda, one of the band’s two front men.
Samuel Flynn Scott, the other front man, says of the album:
’CAPTAIN’ AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD / STREAM;
‘Damn the zeitgeist, I still rejoice in the pan-sexual opulence of a double gate-fold vinyl album. Honestly I’m thoroughly satisfied that we have made 80 minutes of tripped out pop oddities that pays absolutely no attention to the short form game of contemporary music. This is Test Match music, maybe it’s prog or pysche-folk, whatever it is it’s music that we thought about a lot, worked on a lot and care about in the minutia.’
The Phoenix Foundation are lead vocalists/guitarists Samuel Flynn Scott and Lukasz Buda, Conrad Wedde (guitars, keys), Tom Callwood (bass guitar, vocals), Chris O’Connor (drums) and Will Ricketts (percussion, keyboards).
The band will be in tour in support of the record in May as follows:
May 09 Oran Mor, Glasgow
May 10 Deaf Institute, Manchester
May 11 Kazimier, Liverpool
May 14 Electric Ballroom, London
May 16 Thekla, Bristol
Tickets and more from the band’s website : www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz/fandango
Fandango track listing:
Disc 1
Black Mould
Modern Rock
The Captain
Thames Soup
Evolution Did
Inside Me Dead
Corale
Disc 2
Supernatural
Walls
Morning Riff
Sideways Glance
Friendly Society
Praise for previous album Buffalo:
‘An album that already seems destined to be among the best of 2011’ ***** Guardian
‘New Zealand’s finest purveyors of psychedelic Pop’ ****Times
‘Undislodgeable melodies. A lovely album’ **** Sunday Times
New Zealand’s The Phoenix Foundation, leading lights of the mini Kiwi pysch rock invasion with Connan Mockasin, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Opossum and Lawrence Arabia, are all set to return with their new double album ‘Fandango’ on 29th April 2013.