It’s about remaining the status quo, conserve the atmosphere and show all the aces you have in your hand. It became the follow-up a band quite often produces after the success of a certain album. Right time, right place.īankrupt! is kind of an ironic title for the album since the band might live quite okay from their music by now. After years of indie and garage rock, pop was embraced – and PHOENIX were there.

It was just that the world was finally ready for it.

They’ve always wrote good pop songs in the past – just take Too Young or Everything Is Everything. 1901 and Lisztomania were the hits for more than just one summer. But Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix changed that – with the record they cracked America, received a Grammy and finally arrived in the hearts and minds of a bigger audience.

PHOENIX were always quite nice and known to a certain little indie crowd. We can only assume that it must have been a weird feeling for French pop group PHOENIX before they started working on their fifth longplayer Bankrupt! The success of the previous album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix came quite unexpected for a group that’s been in the business for already a full decade by that time. And suddenly you are standing on top of the world.

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