The Phantom Band
Saturday January 22
The Black Box, 8.00pm
Tickets: £7.00
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The Phantom Band, with their legion of musical references,
managed to sound quite unlike anyone else when they released
Checkmate Savage in 2009, a debut that earned mass critical
applause and made them the cult success of the year. Twelve
months later, they’re still in a movement of one, and their follow-
up, The Wants, looks set to cement their reputation as one of the
most inventive and vital units at work today.
A stunning achievement, The Wants is a forest of tuned percussion,
poly-rhythmic group vocals, fuzz guitars and medieval electronics.
Musical inspirations included David Lynch and John Carpenter soundtracks, German kosmische music of the 70’s, Tom Waits, digidub rhythms, R&B harmonies, doo-wop and rock’n’roll. Lyrical
inspiration emerged from lycanthropy, vampires, doppelgangers
and the Salem witch trials.
The Wants starts strongly and never relents, all the way through to
the psycho pastoral sounds of Into The Corn, and the muted John
Barry references of the concluding Good Night Arrow. Compelling
from start to finish.