…thrives off Harris’ charismatic vocals and Newkirk’s agile guitar work, which seamlessly transitions back and forth between needling pointillism and ragged, hip-swiveling jukes.… still catchy as hell, the single should get you excited for a whole album of Steel Phantoms singing drummer goodness.
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Interviews
Steel Phantoms puts distilled instrumentation back into the crux of songwriting, so that, to the naked ear, you’d swear their album came from a shelf with Buzzcocks and XTC vinyls. If it goes their way, this could be the group that breaks our bloated diet of fatty, fuzzed-out filler.Won the Deli NYC’s Artist of the Month poll in November, 2011Founded in 2009 by childhood friends from Pittsburgh [including] Aaron Harris (former drummer for Islands)… the band cycled through guitarists before discovering the virtuoso talents of Jesse Newkirk IV.Guitar rock has seemingly fallen by the wayside… I didn’t think that meant anything anymore, but listening to the Forer EP, it does.
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