Premiere: The Phantom Band preview new album with ‘Tender Castle’ track

Glasgow six-piece The Phantom Band have announced plans to release a new album, ‘Fears Trending’, just a few months on from 2014’s ‘Strange Friend’.

Out 26th January on Chemikal Underground, the new full-length acts as a companion piece to this year’s full-length. Following four years of near-silence after 2010, turns out the band have hit a prolific streak.

Guitarist Duncan Marquiss calls the new LP “the evil twin of ‘Strange Friend’ - they’re stranger friends, oddball vestiges and hybrids.”

Leading the record is ‘Tender Castle’, a track that flips any notions that ‘Fears Trending’ might be a last-minute add on to ‘Strange Friend’. Chugging out crystallised guitar parts alongside skittering percussion and odd, convention-dodging structures, it’s The Phantom Band all over, invention running the show.

DIY is premiering ‘Tender Castle’ below. Check out a tracklist above the player, forthcoming dates below the track.

Tracklist:
1. Tender Castle
2. Local Zero
3. Denise Hopper
4. Dark Tape
5. Spectrelegs
6. The Kingfisher
7. Olden Golden