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The Phantom Band preview new album with ‘Tender Castle’ track
Scots are beginning 2015 with ‘Fears Trending’, a companion piece to this year’s ‘Strange Friend’.
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
DECEMBER
10 Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree
12 Glasgow, The Arches
FEBRUARY 2015
04 London, The Lexington
05 York, The Duchess
06 Manchester, The Deaf Institute
08 Dundee, Buskers
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