THE FOOTPRINTS OF PHANTOMS (LUCID FRENZY PLAYLIST)

Our next Lucid Frenzy playlist on Spotify steps out with Lankum’s characteristically existential take on Irish folk, which shapeshifts into a bleak Philip Glass midway. Angels Of Light (Michael Gira’s non-Swans outfit) cast a sardonic eye over the penetrating effects of mass media. Rev JM Gates keeps the Gospel tradition alive, Tom Waits washes up on foreign shores, Burd Ellen bewitch and beguile with some Scottish folk (returning from Faerieland is at your own risk), Bardo Pond… well soar is really the only word for it, and both Page & Plant and Jah Wobble revisit and rework some classics. All in under an hour! (Okay, in just over an hour…)

The title comes from the old movie serial ’The Phantom Creeps’, while the illo's the Ernst painting ’Angel of the Hearth’. 

Lankum: The Granite Gaze
Nina Nastasia: You’re a Holy Man
The Angels of Light: Promise Of Water
Rev. J. M. Gates: Must Be Born Again
Tom Waits: Shore Leave
Current 93: Cuckoo
Burd Ellen: The High Priestess & The Hierophant
Bardo Pond: My Eyes Out
Popol Vuh: Wo Bist Du?
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: Four Sticks
Hawkwind: Magnu
Jah Wobble: Albatross

“Now they live in your head and they travel your veins
Every word that you speak is a word they have made”