It's suitable that the forthcoming LP from Pedro the Lion is titled Phoenix — like that mythological bird, frontman David Bazan has risen from the ashes with his first new album under this moniker in 14 years. As KEXP writer Dusty Henry wrote when the song premiered:
With the first single, “Yellow Bike,” Bazan takes us back to his youth and sets the scene of life in the Grand Canyon State. He sings about learning to ride his first bike, the feeling of freedom riding alone, parallels it this is adulthood driving his tour van across the highways, and details the loneliness of riding alone. It culminates a quintessential Bazan one-liner, “I’d trade my kingdom for someone to ride with.”
Phoenix is out on January 18th via Polyvinyl. Watch the official video below, and check out our most recent in-studio session with the band from December 2017.
