Vinyl at Length

New Zealand sextet The Phoenix Foundation feature in the Guardian’s ‘New Music’ section this week, “return[ing] with a bittersweet first taster of their 80-minute long new album, Fandango.” “‘Damn the zeitgeist, I still rejoice in the pan-sexual opulence of a double-gatefold vinyl album,’ says the band’s co-frontman Samuel Flynn Scott of the band’s forthcoming fifth album, which clocks in at a patience-sapping 80 minutes. With all that time to fill, the album allows the band to dabble in nearly every genre imaginable. The video of the album’s first single The Captain, a lonely creature made of balloons wander[s] around a seemingly human-less world. Lovely.”


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…