SG67: Phantom Youth - Phantom Youth
Phantom Youth - the side project of Will Evans (Stray Fossa) - is an experimental dream pop project based out of Munich, Germany. Light, bright, and slightly jangly, and yet also dark, brooding, and moody just millimeters beneath the surface, his unique sound gestures towards late 80’s/early 90’s-inspired pop with a comparably more modern emphasis on texture and atmosphere that elevates his music to something effortlessly larger-than-life.
“Afterworld,” bright and brimming with energy, could easily be on the soundtrack for a coming-of-age lm, while tracks like “Cherish It” and “Some Miracle” evoke the complexity of life and living within it. However, “larger-than-life” can also easily allude to - such as in the experimental, almost cerebral “It All Flashed Before Us” - the ghostly and otherworldly, or, to bring attention to the project’s title, those subtle, powerful, phantom-like emotions that lurk under the surfaces of what we believe to be simpler ones. By the sharp, bouncy, rambunctious closer “Ribs,” it’s as if we’ve been taken for a whirl and back again, suspending our reality for just a moment in order to enter into a hazy, almost immaterial expanse of pure memory.
SG67: Phantom Youth - Phantom Youth