THE PHANTOM BAND
www.myspace.com/thephantomband
"...an early bid for debut album of the year." - MOJO [4/5]
"fearlessly ambitious" - THE TIMES [4/5]
"a dizzyingly abstract debut" - OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY [4/5]
"entrancing Caledonian majesty" - Q
"strangely and thrillingly coherent" - THE OBSERVER
"a work of skewed genius, a leftfield car-crash of indie, folk, pop, blues, post-rock and some stuff that’s frankly uncategorisable" - THE LIST [5/5] "thrilling and accomplished...a brilliant debut." - NME [8/10]
"exhilarating" - THE SUNDAY TIMES [4/5]
"Fantastic." - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY [4/5]
"Were they from Brooklyn rather than Glasgow, Checkmate Savage would already have been acclaimed as a benchmark album for 2009." - GUARDIAN [4/5]
"fascinating...has the spiky consistency of the Magic Band" - THE INDEPENDENT [4/5]
"thrilling...a debut album to be proud of." - THE SUN [4.5/5]
"something new and distinctive.... everything coheres to create an assured, absorbing whole." - THE SCOTSMAN [4/5]
"...what Can getting glitchy with The Stooges at a barn dance might sound like" - INDEPENDENT ON SATURDAY [4/5]
"A hidden gem." - THE SUNDAY EXPRESS [4/5]
"smart and instinctive, macabre and poppy." - METRO [4/5]
"like a psych-folk-toned TV On The Radio with a Scottish Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy on vocals" - TIME OUT [4/6]
"That they're so bold is merit enough. That it all works makes them essential." - TELETEXT [8/10] "a lurid triumph" - THE WORD
Photography by Steve Gullick
