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10.0
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The Independent
The album is packed with an impressive amount of energy and ideas for a band celebrating their 25th anniversary
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9.0
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All Music
Phoenix's most immediate work since Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and their most varied since United, Alpha Zulu does indeed range from A to Z, but the band are always in control and the results are frequently brilliant
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Alpha Zulu confronts reality with a dreamy neon-lit elegance pulsing with playful vitality, it runs on its nerves but has its feet on the dance floor. Right now, that sounds perfect to me
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8.0
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Exclaim
For an album that was recorded following lockdowns, after the New York-based Mars was finally able to reunite with his bandmates in Paris, this is a reassuring sentiment: he doesn't have any answers to the world's ills, because no one does, but he's got your back
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8.0
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NME
The French band recorded their seventh album amidst splendour in Paris' Louvre Palace, and the museum's varied, often stunning, artefacts seep into their ever-consistent songwriting
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8.0
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Evening Standard
22 years since their debut, this French quartet is still going strong
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8.0
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Clash
A fun record, but also one with real depth, ‘Alpha Zulu’ becomes an apt testament to the group’s continuing vitality
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8.0
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musicOMH
Bringing back that effortless French cool in a way that only they can, the French outfit’s seventh is easily their best since Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Alpha Zulu proves that while they may play with novel sounds and textures, Phoenix are in no danger of losing their melodic instincts and effortless indie-pop sensibilities
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7.3
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Paste Magazine
The indie-pop quartet’s seventh album is rife with contradictions, but that's also one of its core strengths
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7.1
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Pitchfork
The French indie rock stalwarts’ fun and fizzy seventh album rejuvenates a proven formula while protecting its true feelings behind glass
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
For the most part, Alpha Zulu delivers the kind of deceptively simple, fleet pop for which Phoenix is best known
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6.7
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Spectrum Culture
The album in its final form is a jittery, nervy, scattershot affair that nevertheless has the flashes of pop brilliance that we’ve come to expect from the band
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6.1
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Beats Per Minute
This is a batch of super simple songs, with super simple melodies, and super simple lyricism. At this point in their career it seems like there isn’t much else to expect from them
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6.0
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The Skinny
Movements come and go but Phoenix still bang, even with their lesser works
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6.0
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Northern Transmissions
As an escapist album it does the job; the synth swells are big, the drums are often loud, and the melodies are super catchy, which I noted while singing in the shower
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