Guest Post by The Sonic Scramble

I’ve been surviving the last year on music from 2008. I haven’t spent much time seeking new stuff. I have a staff to do that for me. KBP sorts through the inundating tide of new crap, while TD handles my live appearances. The result is the attached song by Phoenix. They’ve been around for 10 or more years. I just found out about them 2 weeks ago. I saw them live outdoors in Central Park last week. And today I’m ready to tell you that 1901 is the best song of 2009.

These 30 something Parisian rockers put on a damn good show last Friday. Well worth not waiting in any line whatsoever to stand among a thousand or so hipsters in their finest regalia, braving the extraordinarily pleasant weather all to see Phoenix bring the entire crowd completely into sync for this song. They built up to an amazing crescendo (Falling, Falling, Falling…) then walked off stage. They returned for an encore before the crowd could really recover and built right back up into the chorus (Falling, Falling, Falling…). What metaphor applies when you’re outdoors and there is no house to bring down or roof to blow off the place?

Definitely turn this song up when you listen to it. While you’re at it check the entire album (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) its well worth a listen, as are some of their older songs.