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http://www.undertheradarmag.com/artists/phoenix PHOENIX

Shervin Lainez

Since the release of their 2013 album Bankrupt! Phoenix have toured the world multiple times, headlined Coachella, performed across nearly every show on the late-night TV circuit, won a Grammy, and even appeared in Bill Murray’s screwball Netflix holiday special, A Very Murray Christmas (directed by frontman Thomas Mars’ wife, Sofia Coppola). So in the words of every Super Bowl announcer ever, “What are you going to do now?” If you’re Mars, Deck d’Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, and Christian Mazzalai, you skip Disney World and make the admirable decision to head back into the studio the day after getting off tour.

“I think it’s more pathetic, that’s how I would describe it!” Brancowitz

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