Here’s a little something to kick off your weekend in fashion, as this Animal Collective remix of Phoenix’s “Love Like A Sunset” made its debut via Discobelle.

As we all know, remixes are a dime a dozen nowadays, especially as of recently in regards to Phoenix-related remixes. In fact, around the time I found this one in particular, my inbox had about four other Phoenix remixes from some people I’ve never even heard of.

It’s just nice to actually hear a remix with some substance without it trying so desperately to be club worthy.

MP3: Phoenix :: “Love Like A Sunset” (Animal Collective Remix/Deakin’s Jam)”

Here’s a little snippet from Deakin of Animal Collective in regards to this Phoenix remix:

“This spring i was in Panama with Brian. We were cramped into a van on a bumpy, winding Central American road going a little too fast. Feeling a little edgy, I put on my headphones and listened to United and Alphabetical back to back. I watched passing fruit stands, a sweet central american dusk and memories of the massive schools of jelly fish, snapper, and trevally; the few dolphin and even the few bluefin tuna (too few) that Brian and i had just had the joy of diving with. The blend of all of these things put me at ease. Phoenix has been a staple for all four of us since Dave and Noah brought home United from the record store they used to work at. One of the records that would get us through some of those long cross country tour drives, we’ve listened to Phoenix’s jams many many times. We were all totally psyched to get asked to do this and it was super fun to work on it. All the best to those dudes.”
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To keep the goods coming, You Ain’t No Picasso recently posted a full video of Grizzly Bear and Victoria Legrand of Beach House performing the song “Slow Life” together in Columbia, Missouri.

If you hadn’t heard already, this is one of the many tracks from some well-known musicians making its way onto the New Moon (along with Thom Yorke, Death Cab For Cutie, Bon Iver/St. Vincent, etc.) soundtrack.

Definitely cringe-worthy, but just think of some thirteen-year-old picking this up and receiving a proper musical education. I think with that in mind, I’m perfectly okay with it.

Lots of great releases this week, which include two highly anticipated albums from both Grizzly Bear and Phoenix. Definitely worth picking each of these up as they each live up to lofty expectations, and I’m sure they will be populating many people’s year-end lists. A few other interesting releases include Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Eating Us and Viva Voce’s Rose City.

Anything else worth picking up this week? Let us know if we happened to leave off anything!

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It almost feels like 2006, as I seem to be covering the follow-up albums from a lot of the same artists that previously had releases during that year.  Well, add French electropopsters Phoenix to the list, as they’ve kicked off what would otherwise be another boring week with a teaser for their upcoming fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, due out on May 25th.  They were kind of enough to put up a free download of track “1901″ on their website, which had a snazzy little flash opening (dig that hot pink flashing font).

Though, it’s been a few years since we’ve heard from them, it’s obvious from this song that they’ve been spending that time working out on synths all day.  It just buzzes with the goods that we’ve all come to expect, with no changes to what makes them so unique in the first place.  And really, would you have it any other way?  With all the indie rock that has been coming my way lately, this just feels so refreshing to me.

MP3: Phoenix :: “1901″