Chemikal Underground have been putting out great records since day one, and with The Phantom Band's debut album "Checkmate Savage", they continue that trend. This one is getting daily play, and is flying off the shelves.
Here's what the press are saying:
“...an early bid for debut album of the year.” MOJO [4/5]
“fearlessly ambitious” THE TIMES [4/5]
“a dizzyingly abstract debut” OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY [4/5]
“a work of skewed genius, a leftfield car-crash of indie, folk, pop, blues, post-rock and some stuff that’s frankly uncategorisable” THE LIST [5/5]
“thrilling and accomplished...a brilliant debut.” NME [8/10]
“Fantastic.” SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY [4/5]
“Were they from Brooklyn rather than Glasgow, Checkmate Savage would already have been acclaimed as a benchmark album for 2009.” GUARDIAN [4/5]
“fascinating...has the spiky consistency of the Magic Band” THE INDEPENDENT [4/5]
“thrilling...a debut album to be proud of.” THE SUN [4.5/5]
“something new and distinctive.... everything coheres to create an assured, absorbing whole.” THE SCOTSMAN [4/5]
“...what Can getting glitchy with The Stooges at a barn dance might sound like” INDEPENDENT ON SATURDAY [4/5]
“exhilirating” THE SUNDAY TIMES [4/5]
“A hidden gem.” THE SUNDAY EXPRESS [4/5]
“smart and instinctive, macabre and poppy.” METRO [4/5]
“like a psych-folk-toned TV On The Radio with a Scottish Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy on vocals” TIME OUT [4/6]
“That they're so bold is merit enough. That it all works makes them essential.” TELETEXT [8/10]
“entrancing Caledonian majesty” Q
“a lurid triumph” THE WORD
“strangely and thrilllingly coherent” THE OBSERVER
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