Along with childhood friend keyboardist/vocalist Yos Munro and guitarist Jesse Newkirk IV, drummer/vocalist Aaron Harris, formerly of the eccentric indie rock band Islands, craft sparse and magnetic rock songs with new wave and avant-indie flourishes under the Steel Phantoms moniker. The trio delivered a delightful second EP, "Forer," after fundraising it via Kickstarter. Evocative of The Magnetic Fields' timeless melodies immersed in a more modern, electric and percussive musical context, the record is named after psychologist Bertram Forer, who developed a theory according to which "normal" people are more likely to believe positive things about themselves rather than [...]
There is an immense amount of music I want to share, hopefully I'll be able to get it all out in the next week. Did you ever watch that tv show where the girl could stop time by touching her fingers together? I thought it was mind blowing when I was like eight. If I [...]
As you've probably noticed, I haven't exactly been overflowing with new music this week. A large amount of this is down to the fact that it's been the sort of week which has been constantly disrupted, meaning I've had almost no time to sit down and properly digest anything. I have noticed an unusual number of people pushing their mewling progeny around the streets of Edinburgh with the buggy in one hand and their mobile phones in the other, squawking away like over-excited fucking geese. I wonder if there has been a recent rise of babies with phone-related [...]
Género: Indie pop, rock. Aaron Harris, Adam Fischer y Munro Yos, son unos fantasmas de acero, naturales de Brooklyn, acaban de sacar Forer EP y Bedouin su as. Canción clásica en cuanto a formato de rock, pero nada homogénea. Por momentos a trompicones, en estado de permanente cambio, con unas guitarras chispeantes que durante muchos pasajes son luminosas. Y esas cajas que recuerdan a tantos dinosaurios de los noventa, mmmm. Steel Phantoms – Bedouin [Right click for download] [...]
Click here to download ZIP file with all tracks, cover art, and track listing. 1. Izabo – 01 Life Is On My Side (from EP ) 2. 1, 2, 3 – 02 Going Away Party (from The Chess Club EP ) 3. Le Butcherettes – 03 Henry Don't Got Love (from SIN SIN SIN ) 4. Tiger Waves – 04 Funeral March (from Only Good Bands Have Animal Names ) 5. Jim Ward – [...]
Tweet It doesn't sound particularly original but what 'Bedouin' lacks in new territory it more than makes up in ploughing its own furrow in the old country, especially when things step up a notch in the latter stages. The band are Steel Phantoms from Brooklyn and they certainly have something, besides a perfect email manner (you'd be surprised how far a personal email gets you), that suggests that 'Bedouin' could be one of their early tentative steps before the great leap forward. [...]
This is called the Fullcast for no better reason than that I tried to fit far too many songs onto the playlist. I've have used half the Palmist Records stable if possible, but eventually decided to settle for one single track. There's always next week. I didn't even make room for a song from the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah record, although to be fair I haven't really listened to that enough to really know what I think about it, so maybe that would have been hasty. If anything this reminded me of the really [...]
Brooklyn's Steel Phantoms make smart, confident indie rock with a masterful mix of guitar, keys, bass, and drums. The songs on their latest EP, Forer , include tasteful dashes of organ, moog , and heaps of tom-tom. Guitarist Jesse Newkirk IV shines, whether spouting simple, echoing melodies (as on 'Floodlight' and 'Danger Wave') or screeching chorus surf (as on 'Short Stuff'). Those lamenting the demise of Beta Band will find respite in the song 'Slow Loris'. The Forer EP can be streamed on bandcamp or downloaded for free at [...]
Brooklyn's Steel Phantoms make smart, confident indie rock with a masterful mix of guitar, keys, bass, and drums. The songs on their latest EP, Forer , include tasteful dashes of organ, moog , and heaps of tom-tom. Guitarist Jesse Newkirk IV shines, whether spouting simple, echoing melodies (as on 'Floodlight' and 'Danger Wave') or screeching chorus surf (as on 'Short Stuff'). Those lamenting the demise of Beta Band will find respite in the song 'Slow Loris'. The Forer EP can be streamed on bandcamp or downloaded for free at [...]
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Brooklyn's Steel Phantoms have some new tunes you should listen to. Check out the Forer EP on Bandcamp and download the track "Bedouin". Link: Forer EP on Bandcamp Aaron Harris and Yosef Munro met as teenagers in Pittsburgh, PA and have been playing music together ever since. After high school they both moved to Montreal to be music majors at McGill University, but Harris dropped out
I used to live with someone who only liked music if he could predict the next chord change. Can you imagine anything more dull? He would, I suspect, have difficulty predicting even the next bar of any given point in this Steel Phantoms track. It is gloriously erratic, sounding as if the chord progressions have in fact been chosen at random, or perhaps by some elaborate mathematical formula. It's not dissimilar to some of the faux-hi life that's been coming out of Steel Phantoms' native Brooklyn in the last couple of years, [...]
The first thought is, "Close To Me". It's not your fault either, the first ten seconds of Steel Phantoms' "Bedouin" are an absolute dead ringer for the Cure original. Of the next nearly five minutes the easiest comparison is last year's Hooded Fang record, an amalgam of string pizzicato building to a sprawling plateau of a chorus and the instantly memorable, "Everybody goes away." The path from
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Steel Phantoms - Bedouin Steel Phantoms is a Brooklyn based rock band started by longtime friends Aaron Harris (formerly of Islands) and Yos Munro. Months ago, I had received their original EP and couldn't get enough of it. Last week, they released their next EP (Forer EP) I got the chance to listen to their EP (available on their bandcamp) and no doubt its even better than the last. The EP was recorded in a converted home / studio in Hartford CT. With influences from XTC the Cure & the Smiths this [...]
NEW EP: Steel Phantoms - Forer Remember when the Steel Phantoms released their first self titled EP last June and it was awesome and you loved it so much and you wanted more right away? They made us wait over a year, but we forgive them because it was totally worth it and they are even giving it to us for free for a limited time through their website. Listen to Forer then download and tell all your friends! [...]
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