The Phantom Forest

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Dancepunk five-piece Bearsuit will unleash their eagerly anticipated album The Phantom Forest on March 14 2011 on Fortuna POP! The 12-track long-player heralds a fierce new sound for the band, who have swapped violins, flutes and horns for dirty synths, urgent guitars and infectious beats in the light of a dramatic line-up change.  With a sprinkling of sonic dust from big-time producer Gareth Parton (The Go Team, Breeders, Foals) the band have created a perfectly off-the-wall pop masterpiece.      The polished disco-synth debut single Please Don’t Take Him Back was playlisted on BBC 6Music in October, as well as being hotly tipped in the music press including Artrocker and Clash Magazine. Weeks later and their second release A Train Wreck was rated an NME Top 10 Download. The band lead into 2011 having secured a profile slot at the SXSW festival in Texas for Huw Stephens’ Radio 1 showcase. The third single from the album is dancefloor smasher When Will I Be Queen, released in Feburary 2011. The Phantom Forest is laden with dance-floor fillers, killer beats and brazen melodies. It will keep you dancing until all the booze is drunk, with a birdsong finale to serenade your dawn-walk home. But lurking beneath, a more sinister and melancholy thread weaves the 12 tracks together. Songwriter/guitarist Iain Ross explains: “The album’s theme starts with a train crash in a phantom forest. The surviving passengers have to re-establish a new kind of society, cut off from everything el

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