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As most people will be aware, Phoenix released a free live album a few days ago of their recent performance in Sydney. It features the majority of tracks from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

The reason for this post though is to highlight the extended epic of ‘Love Like a Sunset’, a favourite track of mine now for quite a while, and now I’m falling in love with it all over again. Weighing in at 10 minutes 40 seconds, featuring a breakdown that teases every sense of your being and a bass line that flirts with indie dance floor attitude – it is the greatest advertisement for a live show since Daft Punk’s Alive 2007.

With no sense of irony, the track is too epic (large) for me to upload and preview on here but I strongly recommend you visit this blog and try it out, in it’s entirety.

As for the rest of the album, it’s equally and unquestionably as great an achievement as the previously mentioned track. Short of Love Like A Sunset, the stand-out track is Rome, beautiful from start to finish and at parts, full of the kind of energy you normally only find from a toddler on a sugar high.

Rome (Live)

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by Allan