Synthesizer stabs create a familiar pop-dance style in a new interpretation. The song is obviously influenced by the dance floor hits of the 1980’s it profitably blends the bright ringing of the electric guitar with Mars’s sweetly-voluminous voice. The following track 1901 is definitely doomed to become a hit. The sound filled with warmth is accompanied by great guitar riffs and an inspiring rhythm. It opens with the buoyant Lisztomania track, where Tomas Mars sings about the relationships that are based on the feeling of necessity rather than the romantic spell. The record has a back-to-the-start atmosphere. A back-to-the-start atmosphere on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Nevertheless, this French indie-quartet has managed to get rid of the “one hit artist” image, and its 4th studio record Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has proven it brilliantly. We can even suppose that Phoenix is paying respect to classical music, because the album title bears in itself an allusion to the name of the famous Austrian composer Mozart, while the first track alludes to the Hungarian Ferenz Liszt. It is not surprising: having started recording Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix on a boat, they managed to set the frame for the whole album. Yet while recording this album, they were totally open for anything new. As the band members themselves say the previous record It’s Never Been Like That was more of the Berlin-rock style. Obviously, it is him who is to be thanked for lightness, manysideness and rhythm. Philippe Zdar, who is famous for his work in the house-project Cassius has produced the album. Its new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix may be actually called its second career defining album. After the enormous success of the 2006’s tremendous It’s Never Been Like That, when it seemed impossible to surpass it, now the band has massacred all of the most stubborn skeptics. Though Phoenix has often been compared to and blamed for copying such crews as The Strokes, The Hives, Jet, or Air, they proved to be better than this. Phoenix is paying respect to classical music