debut greatness?
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January 25, 2009, 4:59 pm
Filed under: Arts, music, Scotland, videos, Youtube | Tags: albums, chemikal underground, faust, Faust IV, Glasgow, glasgow band, It's a rainy day, rock, scottish bands, scottish music, the faust tapes, The Phantom band
Filed under: Arts, music, Scotland, videos, Youtube | Tags: albums, chemikal underground, faust, Faust IV, Glasgow, glasgow band, It's a rainy day, rock, scottish bands, scottish music, the faust tapes, The Phantom band
The debut album from Glasgow Krautrock/folkie combo, The Phantom Band, has been receiving universal 4 star reviews all week in everything from The NME to The Guardian. My mate Kenneth has been proclaiming their majesty for some time now and I have to say this unofficial pre-release video shows considerable potential.
I for one shall be tootling down to Fopp to stock up.
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This is even better, a tribute to German art rockers, Can, from whom they are said to derive many of their influences.
Myself? I was a bigger fan of Faust and this masterpiece may demonstrate why.
On the other hand you may, like 99% of the population find them ear bleed inducing noiseniks with not a musical quality to their name. (But you’d be wrong.)
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it’s brilliant
Comment by kenneth not logged on January 26, 2009 @ 10:42 amah Krautrock – had the good fortune to see Can live four times back in the seventies. Absolutely amaazing, which is why, for me, they take it by a shortbread biscuit over Faust. Never got the Kraftwerk thing though.
Anyone not heard Can go straight to their first meisterwork Monster Movie, especially You Doo Right, all twenty glorious minutes of it. Incredible to think they were making this sort of noise as early as 1969.
Comment by will atkinson January 27, 2009 @ 8:11 amWell I saw Faust live and they were awesome. I also saw Kraftwerk (who I adore – front row of The Playhouse.) The other I saw was Tangerine Dream. Pretty good but not the same league as either Faust or Kraftwerk. Just for you I’ll see if I can unearth Monster movie.
Comment by markgorman January 27, 2009 @ 10:02 am