Oh well: Phoenix have released a new song. “Alpha Zulu”, as it is called, marks their first new music in two years. Hear the clubby “Alpha Zulu” streamed here.
In a press statement, the Versailles-based band said the title and lyrics of “Alpha Zulu” came from a phrase that Thomas Mars, who is more expressionist than usual, “heard repeatedly over the radio from a pilot during a turbulent flight in a storm.” . The urgency of the phrase stuck in his mind and the band’s new song was born.”
“Alpha Zulu” can be understood as a harbinger of a new album, which has not yet been officially announced. Phoenix are currently in the studio, it is said. Her current album TI AMO was “Amore-Synthiepop as Homage to Gelato, Frutti di Mare and La Dolce Vita” and was released in 2017. Various festival appearances have already been confirmed, further tour dates are to follow “soon”.