Some artists are content with sonic terrain that they, and their listeners, are well acquainted with, you know, reliable places that are also typically one of the roads “most travelled.” You can firmly eliminate The Phantom Broadcast from any consideration of falling into that category with their expansive, more challenging sound. Their new single “The Practice” is a specific instance of that, a sign of things to come on the sextet’s upcoming new record Bindings. “The Practice” is an atmospheric track with a dark side, featuring brooding themes of isolation, disaster, abuse of power, and corruption. It all falls within the introspective, pensive space that the members of The Phantom Broadcast operate within when writing their music. With a comment on their new single, the band tells us: ...