A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Phoenix

The charmingly tussled members of Phoenix have had quite a year, and they deserve it. The band's 2009 album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, stands as one of the year's (and maybe the decade's) most universally beloved albums, and its spirit onstage—somewhere between a dreamboat rock band and a bunch of teenage friends getting high and fantasizing in their parents' '70s rec-room—keeps getting warmer the bigger it gets. It's a band that's put in the time, going back to its 2000 debut, United, and it seems likely to stick around for a good time to come.

Updated 11/19/2009

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