15. Listen to Alpha Zulu

Phoenix is on fire again. Loyauté/Glassnote, November 4.

The new album from festival closers Phoenix benefits from the quartet’s 25-year tenure at the intersection of French house and indie rock. The hooks are bright, but the mood is a bit grim: Recorded at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs inside the Louvre, the album finds the band trying to balance depravity with beauty, love, and loss.