Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Slept on this album last year, and have just finally got around to listening to / getting into it. Sounding a lot like Passion Pit's "Manners" to me, it's sounds like PP was jamming this album while recording Manners (or vice-versa). In my opinion, the songwriting here is more refined, and there's less synth clutter in Phoenix's music. Easily the most listenable album that Phoenix has released, and obviously a logical step from (if not also a combination of) their last two albums.

1. Lisztomania
2. 1901
3. Fences
4. Love Like A Sunset Pt. 1
5. Love Like A Sunset Pt. 2
6. Lasso
7. Rome
8. Countdown
9. Girlfriend
10. Armistice

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Eric Avery - Help Wanted

Eric Avery, the original bass player for Jane's Addiction, has a solo album out. After a couple listens, it's sinking in, and I'm enjoying it. Weird space rock, with hints of psychedelia... and a ton of guests. 

Pretty good stuff!

1. Belly Of An Insect
2. Beside The Fire
3. All Remote and No Control
4. Revolution
5. Maybe
6. Unexploded
7. Walk Through Walls (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 5)
8. Philo Beddoe
9. Chicken Bone (The Mon Who Can Fly Pt. 2)
10. Porchlight
11. Song In The Silence (The Man Who Can Fly Pt. 7)
12. Sun's Gone

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