The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage LP Pressed on gold vinyl [w/ download card] and The Gun Club at

and The Gun Club at now-extinct local clubs

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The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage LP Pressed on gold vinyl [w/ download card] and The Gun Club atThe Phantom Band's glorious, kaleidoscopic debut emerged, fully formed, in January of 2009 and took more or less everyone (apart from us) by surprise at just how epic, timeless and, well, fantastic it sounded. From the opening pulses of 'The Howling' to the fluttering fade out of 'The Whole Is On My Side', 'Checkmate Savage' plots a musical course that manages to be both surprising and strangely familiar all at the same time. A decade on from its