French indie-quartet Phoenix’s fourth studio album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix sees the band coming up with a bunch of familiar-sounding new songs that are littered with surprises, developments and more synths than we’ve heard from the band before.

First single 'Lisztomania' and the heavily-blogged and bass-heavy '1901' will move your hips and plant a smile on your face. On the other hand, 'Love Like a Sunset Part One' – in the middle of the album – is a slow-grind of jangly noises that leaves the distinctive Phoenix melody for its successor 'Love Like a Sunset Part Two'.

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix avoids becoming too cutesy – one of the only pitfalls of 2006’s It’s Never Been Like That – which may have something to do with the album’s co-producer Philippe Zdar of Cassius who is the first external producer the band has enlisted to help with an album. If an album is going to bring Phoenix the recognition the band deserves, it’s going to be this one. It’s just too good to be ignored.