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"On their third album, their first since 2010, the Scottish six-piece have supposedly adopted a back-to-basics approach, though they don't scrimp on production jiggery-pokery. The melodies flutter around the tonic note like Caledonian reels, but this is not folk music: there's too much new stuff happening ... When Women of Ghent evaporates, leaving a guitar line echoing the Beatles' Two of Us, you're left marvelling at the intangibility of it all".

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"It's a record without a weak link, that doesn't outstay its welcome, and excites you about the possibility of seeing it all played live. It's also confirmation that The Phantom Band can continue to bring their disparate styles together to create something really exciting. At heart they're a rock band who bring other distinct styles into the mix rather than anything truly groundbreaking or genre-melting, but when it's done with such skill, such confidence and precision, it really doesn't matter how it's labeled".

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"It's a record without a weak link, that doesn't outstay its welcome, and excites you about the possibility of seeing it all played live. It's also confirmation that The Phantom Band can continue to bring their disparate styles together to create something really exciting. At heart they're a rock band who bring other distinct styles into the mix rather than anything truly groundbreaking or genre-melting, but when it's done with such skill, such confidence and precision, it really doesn't matter how it's labeled".

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"On their third album, their first since 2010, the Scottish six-piece have supposedly adopted a back-to-basics approach, though they don't scrimp on production jiggery-pokery. The melodies flutter around the tonic note like Caledonian reels, but this is not folk music: there's too much new stuff happening ... When Women of Ghent evaporates, leaving a guitar line echoing the Beatles' Two of Us, you're left marvelling at the intangibility of it all".

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