Phoenix

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The first step David Bazan took to renew his longstanding project Pedro the Lion was possibly the hardest: In 2006, he decided to dissociate himself with the “Christian” label the press heavily ascribed to his faith-driven confessions. But taken on its own, <i>Phoenix</i> should please both secular and religious types alike. Bazan is at his most contemplative—he calls out the haters with clever retorts on the mid-tempo call-to-arms "Clean Up" (“The weight of the world is bearing down on me/Like Biblical weather”), while on the twinkling "Model Homes," he looks back at his Christian upbringing with anecdotal fondness (“Instead of quiet time in my room/Where Sunday afternoon felt like a tomb.”) A natural evolution from his slowcore songwriting tendencies, <i>Phoenix</i> is a muscular return coming from one of indie rock’s most perceptive elder statesmen.

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