The Phantom Band
Checkmate Savage

Glasgow's Phantom band have been stealthily developing their melange of... well, just about everything good in modern music, for four years now, final...

Having settled finally on their ghostly epithet and signed to Chemikal Underground, the Glaswegian sextet find physical form on their debut album, Che...

My due diligence as a reviewer led me to finding out that the Phantom Band released two records in the mid-1990's... and that they are not the same Ph...

Checkmate Savage, the debut from Glasgow’s The Phantom Band, is a special kind of mutant. A well-crafted hybrid of sounds as disparate as post-rock, f...

Was that a whisper Yes, but one almost too quiet to hear and impossible to decipher. Wait, something rattled. Something popped. And now, is that a sc...

I remember the first time I arrived in the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia. I felt alive and invigorated as sights dipped in and out of view as we travel...

The legend about the origin of The Phantom Band's name stems from the group's pattern of changing their name for each gig, disguising themselves while...

You have to wonder what it is in the soil of Scotland that allows for the continual gestation of so many bands - and so many good bands. Certainly at ...

Getting ahead of myself a bit here, but what the hell: The Phantom Band offer up a wonderful debut record in the form of Checkmate Savage, and one tha...

Glasgow’s the Phantom Band realise this, their debut album, after slipping under most people’s radars for the past year. That such a band appears to h...