Phoenix

The first official book on the French band Phoenix, the generation-defining group who bridged the gap between French EDM and American indie music--and defined the sound of an era.

With one foot in the world of French touch house music that defined the late 1990s, and the other in the world of post-punk indie pop that grew from a reverence for Joy Division and New Order, Phoenix have evolved from an edgy French band to one of the most influential indie acts of the last twenty years.
The band came to fame when the American film director Sofia Coppola included one of their songs on the soundtrack to Lost in Translation, announcing their sound to an international audience and cementing their place as troubadours of a new indie generation. Since then their unique sound has wrought collaborations with a range of musicians and artists, from the fathers of French house Daft Punk to R&B legend R Kelly, and seen them headline festivals around the world.
Drawing on the band's own archives of personal snapshots and memorabilia, and including original photography of everything from the band's instruments to the notebooks in which every lyric and chord change is carefully notated, the book is both a visual celebration of spectacular performances and a superfan's chronicle of the evolution of a band from the studio to the stage.
Published to coincide with a series of anniversaries for the band--thirty years since their formation as teenagers in Versailles in 1989; twenty years since the release of their debut record, United, in 1999; and ten years since winning a Grammy award for best album for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--and with original interviews conducted with the band members running throughout, this book is an intimate celebration of a group whose particular brand of melancholic pop has struck a chord with multiple generations on both sides of the Atlantic