[Brettison]

Their 1st main single is Gimme Twice which released a little earlier this Summer. Now when I 1st heard the song on my Sat Radio I wasn't paying attention to who was playing, and I was like oh shit!

I thought Phoenix was finally done with their follow up to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and this was the 1st single. Dude sounded sooo much like Thomas Mars it was uncanny. Then they changed it up a little, and I was like okay is this really Phoenix cause it sounds sort of like The Strokes.

I was even thrown by the name The Royal Concept considering Thomas and crew are from Versailles so I was thinking is this a name change? Some Phoenix alter ego? Maybe a side project? Then I figured out they were a group from Stockholm, Sweden.

I still swear that whenever their stuff comes on it sounds uncannily like Phoenix at 1st. Like it's some long lost Phoenix song that has a couple seconds of the strokes thrown in. That or it was a group that started out as a Phoenix cover band.

Here's their 1st single on YT...

The Royal Concept - Gimme Twice

What do you say GAF?!?!?

[TheKaeptain]

Whoa... I hear it man I fucking hear it.

[subrock]

definitely phoenix. Not surprising that phoenix's sound has influenced others.

[Brettison]

Whoa... I hear it man I fucking hear it.

I swear if you did a blind listen for the general public of say the 1st minute of the single everyone would swear it's a Phoenix song they hadn't heard yet.

[disappeared]

Jesus. That's almost too close for comfort.

[Brettison]

Also if you notice in the video the guitar player even has the same playing style as the dude from Phoenix. It's uncanny I tell ya!!!

[disappeared]

Speaking of Phoenix...

Is a follow-up in the works? Or are they on hiatus?

[DreD]

Speaking of Phoenix... Is a follow-up in the works? Or are they on hiatus?

They're supposed to put an album out by the end of this year, possibly around november. Might be called "Pluviose".

[Mr. F]

That is way too close...'influence' is an understatement.

[Jangaroo]

Holy shit, I closed my eyes and thought I was hearing a new single from them or something.

[Eric Hall]

Yeah when I first heard this on the radio, I was sure it was Phoenix.

[Darkangel2001]

That is really... close. And l like it.

[BlueSteel]

Woah. Definitely sounds Phoenix-esque.

[Ventrue]

It sounds precisely like Phoenix.

[Brettison]

If your Phoenix are you flattered or are you pissed that someone seemingly ripped off your sound?

[Fatalah]

If your Phoenix are you flattered or are you pissed that someone seemingly ripped off your sound?

You're scared Royal Concept's label works to make them more popular than you!

[ced]

Um that is kinda too much of a rip off of the two bands...like shameless.