NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Phoenix

The sounds of the group’s best-selling 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix are so ubiquitous to viewers of TV commercials that they produce a Pavlovian impulse to purchase portable music players and luxury automobiles. But at this Tiny Desk Concert, instantly recognizable hits such as “1901“ and “Lisztomania“ were stripped down and reassembled as sweetly shambling acoustic numbers.