Phoenix - J-boy
- 6 jun 2017
- 1 Min. de lectura
After the disappointment that was Bankrupt, Phoenix is back in form with a song that is the soundtrack of our love fantasies. Full of dreamy textures, J-Boy is the band playing with calm and certitude, just like in their beautiful ballad Love Like a Sunset, but adding shiny synths and a soft base that are like the lights reflecting on a disco ball, the imagery they offer of a girl wearing shiny bangles in her wrist at the Masquerade ball is very appropriate for the tone of the song.
But no matter how slow is the dance, Thomas Mars keeps spitting verses at a machine-gun speed, talking about a love story set in a dystopian background where people steal money of homeless girls. It's the account on how we found ourselves doing strange things for love, our main character becomes a shoplifter just because he "was excited to be part of your world, to belong, to be lost, to be mostly the two of us".
It's inevitable to think of the pastel color palette of a Sofia Coppola film when listening to this new track. What Thomas and Sofia have developed together is a synchronicity in his music and her visuals that speaks volumes on how much connected they are as a couple. And if Phoenix new album is as good as this song and Sofia's new movie, The Beguiled is as powerful as Cannes' reviews suggested, maybe we are about to see the rising of the most amazing artistic couple in the world.
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