Guardian Music — (Chemikal Underground)Shamefully, this Glasgow six-piece's 2009 debut passed under the radar despite displaying the alchemical, art-rock ambition of a Caledonian TV on the Radio. Gratifyingly, they've only come back stronger. Opener "A Glamour" sets ... more info

DrownedInSound — The Wants feels like an album that could only have been made in 2010, after 50 years of musical merging, and more importantly like an album that could only have been made by The Phantom Band. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — (Chemikal Underground)For this follow-up to the Glasgow sextet's debut album, Checkmate Savage, the band have decided not to tame their propensity to cherrypick from practically every genre available to them. Instead, they've celebrated it by juxtapo... more info

Song, by Toad — I have never really clicked with purely instrumental music, from classical to pop, it usually needs words for me to really be able to engage with it.  Oddly enough, this is true even when the words are either indecipherable or, sometimes, too abstra... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: The Phantom Band - Walls (MP3) The just-announced list of CMJ performing artist is a little light on foreign acts, at least ones I haven't seen before, but one inclusion just made my day: Glasgow's The... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Given that recent Sunday postings have run into trouble with the authorities, either through a dmca notice or someone getting in touch with my file provider and demanding a link to an mp3 be removed (I still can't get over something that was given a... more info

The Music Fix — Is it a black pudding supper perchance? more info

Altsounds — 'No man is an island' wrote John Donne, but what about bands? Well, they're probably not islands either, but like most things in life, you need exceptions to prove the rule. That's why it was so remarkable when The Phantom Band, with their legion ... more info

Nialler9 — Yes, it’s still list season. As State kicks off its Top 50 of the year, here are my own top 30 albums of the year in four-page epic form. 30. Channel One – Sound to Light 29. Clark – Totem’s Flare 28. The Phantom Band - Checkmate ... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Being a blog that is largely of the retro variety, I'm not all that fussed about publishing a rundown of what I reckon to have been the best songs/albums of the year/decade. Yes, I do admit to making a few suggestions last month of stuff that you mi... more info