Phantastic Ferniture is the garage-pop project of Julia Jacklin, Elizabeth Hughes and Ryan K Brennan – released their self-titled debut album last month, and today they share the video for “Dark Corner Dance Floor.”

Phantastic Ferniture talk about the video for “Dark Corner Dance Floor”

“When you’re a kid from out of the city you think Darling Harbour is the essence of Sydney. The aquarium, the Ferris wheel, the IMAX theatre. You imagine when you finally make it to the big smoke you’ll spend your weekends falling in love under the lights of the high rises. Turns out if you move to Sydney you’ll probably never go there. We wanted to capture that feeling we had when we were two starry eyed teens imagining a fake city life.”

Phantastic Ferniture’s spiritual home may be the garage but they were born in a bar, specifically the hallowed basement of Frankie’s Pizza in Sydney. One late night in 2014, on Jacklin’s birthday, a group hug manifested amid the pinball machines, with all ten participants vowing to form a band. “Only four of us remembered the next day,” notes Hughes. United by fern puns and a love of leisurewear, the band met up whenever schedules would allow, writing songs and playing smatterings of dates to an increasingly devoted audience. Eventually it was decreed that this was no side project and an LP should follow.

The mission was obvious: Don’t overthink it. That’s evident in the urgent garage-pop perfection on Phantastic Ferniture’s self-titled debut album, out now on Polyvinyl, and in the unconventional path the band has taken to releasing it. The result is one of the most enjoyable albums of 2018. “It feels really good,” Jacklin says with satisfaction. “It’s like having an alter ego.”

Phantastic Ferniture
Phantastic Ferniture
Polyvinyl Records

1. Uncomfortable
Teenager
2. Bad Timing
3. Fuckin ‘N’ Rollin
4. Gap Year
5. Take It Off
6. Parks
7. I Need It
8. Dark Corner
Dance Floor
9. Mummy y Pappa