Coming off their biggest album — and coming into a summer that included arena dates and a headlining spot at Coachella — Phoenix probably should have crafted a fifth album full of sing-along singles, or at least Cadillac-worthy jingles. Instead, they gave us Bankrupt!, 40 minutes of their loosest, airiest material to date — a full seven of which were dedicated to the album’s most inscrutable number: its Jan Hammer-eque title track. Bankrupt! is not a weird record, but it is the weirdest Phoenix record. It’s full of sublime, gossamer music, but even its lead single — opening track “Entertainment” — isn’t really a single; it’s an assortment of disparate fragments of songs cropped, cut-and-pasted together, and run through an Instagram filter or two. So goes the majority of Bankrupt!: These are deliciously sweet, richly textured songs that fill the space between the headphones with an intoxicating floral pungency, but melt away as quickly as a scoop of mint chip gelato spilled on a New Orleans sidewalk. I might venture to say these are the sleekest, smoothest contours Phoenix has ever produced, and even when that means gliding across them like raindrops along the hood of a freshly waxed SRX cruising comfortably at 75, with no hope of hanging on to anything at all, it’s still a sweet, sweet ride. –Michael [LISTEN]