The Phoenix Foundation

Embracing the pastoral calm of alt-country and the passion of indie rock, the Phoenix Foundation are one of the most successful independent acts to emerge from New Zealand in the early 2000s. Buffalo was their international breakthrough, earning them an audience outside their homeland in 2010, and 2013's Fandango was an ambitious double-length album that gave them an opportunity to work out their ideas at greater length. The Phoenix Foundation were formed in 1997 by singer and guitarist Samuel Flynn Scott, guitarist and keyboard man Conrad Wedde, and Luke Buda on vocals, guit...