C'est La Vie is the seventh studio album by Phosphorescent.

[11] On July 30, 2018, Matthew Houck - under his stage name Phosphorescent - announced the release of his seventh album, along with the first single "New Birth in New England".

[12] C'est La Vie was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics.

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 19 reviews.

[1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 21 reviews.