Credit: Julia Lucas
Words: Ellie Ward
Phantom Isle’s latest release, ‘MAR V’, is a club-ready banger that sees the band shift from their art-pop roots to upbeat indie-house, filled with an hypnotic synth pulse, addictive hooks, and a feet-moving rhythm via the powering drums and bassline.
Despite its energetic feel, there’s a dark side to ‘MAR V’ (whose title derives from the Marburg MaNo-Musikfestival in Germany, where the band headlined in March), as lyricist and drummer, Sam Thorne explains: “The lyrics were actually written about feeling anxious and alone, comparing that feeling to an old friend that follows you through life, saying 'you almost miss it when you leave it behind'.
Accompanying the track is a video, directed by Matthew Nelson, that is as surreal and chaotic as the world that we’re living in at the moment, reflecting the pulsating energy of the song itself - wall-to-wall with everything from flashes of a latex-clad gas-masked dancer, to tour and lockdown footage.
“We had all this footage of us on tour, in the studio etc. which is all well and good, but we wanted to throw some kind of bizarre fly in the ointment," says lead singer and guitarist, Peter Marchant. "So Matthew suggested we film lots of extra footage in our flat, and use whatever bonkers ideas that came into our heads. We had a lot of hilarious moments shooting these ideas all night.”
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