The Phantom Band: The Wants | CD review

(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 juxtaposing musical elements that just shouldn't work. Into the Corn, for example, begins with pinging, processed beats before evolving into a stately, guitar-lead lament ("Everyone I knew there was dead") that recalls the National, while opener A Glamour g...

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