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Image via WeArePhoenix.com. Photo uncredited. A full decade into their careers, Versailles, France group Phoenix have hit a career high point with the release of this year's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix .

It doesn't take a genius to work out why French band Phoenix is bigger than Elvis at the moment.

It doesn't take a genius to work out why French band Phoenix is bigger than Elvis at the moment.

By Thomas Hochwarter A Burgenland pensioner had to be hospitalised after he shot himself in the hand hunting voles.

Influential modern rock bands Wolfgang and Razorback return to the local recording scene via "Alive 2007." Although the 11 tracks in this CD were recorded live two years ago at the Music Museum, they remain vital to fans who want to relive defining moments in the bands' history via their discographies.

Throwing itself from branch to branch around the cavernous canopy of a lush sonic jungle, it's somewhere between the sweet sass of suave post-punk poppers Orange Juice, 'Remain In Light'-era Talking Heads and the old doyen of debonair himself, Bryan Ferry, by way of the multilayered pop of Of Montreal or Grizzly Bear.

Though in bleak economic times your budget for disposable income gets shrunk, and you might be more inclined to trade-and-burn and seek out "free" downloads than buy new music, hopefully you still have a tiny spot in your heart for your real record stores.

When Mark Oliver Everett rasps, "Girl, I want it bad," he's not kidding. The seventh CD from the eternally overlooked Eels is a 42-minute paean to the pain of unrequited love.

The title Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is damned ambitious. "You've heard of Mozart, right? You should check out Phoenix." The French group is not without cred-their previous album It's Never Been Like That won critical praise in 2006, and "Too Young" from United was featured in Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation." But Mozart's been on a couple more ...

Record reviews short enough to make Bob Christgau's head explode. Sorry, Professor.

The Anglophone French foursome recognized the globe-over as Phoenix returns to record stores today with their latest full-length release Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix .

If you ever wanted to know what Aztec Camera would sound like if you put that band in the studio with Chic, pick up any Phoenix album.