Phantom Jets - The Phantom Jets Play The ''Phantom Jet Set'' (Vinyl, Screaming Apple Records 2008)

Lookout! cuzz headin' your way in rev-o-phonic sound--it's the Phantom Jets! They're all new, and they're what are happening now in the Capital City. Coming at you with a style of beat music borrowing from the wyldest groups of the 60's, but also incorporating the hi-energy styles of today, the Phantom Jets play songs reverberating with the sounds of minor-key 60's garage pop, fuzzed-out punkers, and a bit of reverb-drenched spooky surf thrown into the mix.                                                           They are a group with a single mission....to get people's feet moving with rockin' sounds! Furthermore, they're out to prove that you don't need amps with 19 rectifiers, or a drum kit with 20 pieces, and that 2-3 minute songs can get the job done just as well as any.....and that time spent perfecting a song is time that could be better used learning a new one...No need to keep your eyes and ears peeled for the Phantom Jets, they guarantee you'll hear them a-coming!   -Source

 

Germany's fabulistic Screaming Apple Records present for your delectation ''The Phantom Jets''... a Sacramento, CA quartet comprising of John, Frank, Ted and Farfisa-squealer Sarah. If hip-swingin', surf-centred, garage teen-beat party punk is the thing that readily floats your boat, then you may soon be under the Jets' spell.                                 The emphasis is on loudmouth, Jagger-by-Prevost-style hand-on-hip snotty vocals, dual-packed with reverberating twangs and speed-fueled rhythmic exhortations to frug the night away like there be no tomorrow. And who knows with these cats around...to them it wouldn't matter where you be… the supermarket, dentist's chair, school dining room or better still the parking lot of the local fleapit drive-in where the kids smoke‘n twist while schlock horror flicks play on a constant loop.                        But you always have to watch your back for deadbeat monsters and teenage zombie-head losers who lurk in every doorway and around every dark corner followed by unambiguous trilby-attired spies all of whom are out to do you no good, or at the very least steal your date right out from under your nose... perhaps they'll then do unspeakable things. Whoooo-haaa, file under sped-up cartoon garage punk fun.                -Lenny Helsing (Review from "Lost in Tyme issue #5)

 

 

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