The Phoenix Foundation - Friend Ship [CD]

Memphis Industries

£14.20

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: MI0637CD
Release Date: 16th October 2020
Genre: Indie, Rock

 “New Zealand’s finest purveyors of psychedelic Pop” - The Times (****)
 The Phoenix Foundation have lived many lives. From high school distortion addicts to indie folk trippers to masters of motorik dream pop. It’s been five years since their last album ‘Give Up Your Dreams’ but that downtime has been well spent. The New Zealand outfit have been writing, recording, touring with a Symphony Orchestra, creating the acclaimed soundtrack for Taika Waititi’s Hunt For The Wilderpeople, building shrines to light, creating scores for VR, producing other bands and, that most lockdown-friendly activity, baking sourdough.
 Slowly, when they could, the six old friends found time to work together in studios, garages, forests, and sheds to put together the concise ten song set of that is ‘Friend Ship’. “We took such a long break after ‘Give Up Your Dreams’ that when we did decide to make a new record we all felt it needed to be in some
esoteric sense different,” says co-lead singer Samuel Flynn Scott. “To me that meant returning to something more focused. Honing in on the songs before we went deep into the arrangements and freaky sounds.” And the results reflect this
approach too. Whilst ‘Friend Ship’, as you would expect, weaves seamlessly between dreamy introspective pop, stretched out grooves and psychedelic rock, it also exists as a collection of masterfully crafted songs.
 ‘Friend Ship’ features vocals from Nadia Reid, Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook and Anita Clark aka Motte plus sumptuous string arrangements performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
 Available on CD and pink vinyl LP with digital download code.

Tracklisting:
Guru
Miserable Meal (with the
NZSO)
Hounds Of Hell (with
Nadia Reid)
Decision Dollars (with
Hollie Fullbrook)
Transit Of Venus (with
the NZSO)
Tranquility (with Hollie
Fullbrook)
Landline
Former Glory (with Anita
Clark)
My Kitchen Rules
Trem Sketch

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