• Portuguese Translation

I wrote ‘Phantom’ when I was 16 years old in my childhood home in Garður. It was one of those songs that belonged to an era before the band but also these first few years that the band was forming and finding our sound. We never recorded it but it was always very important to our history and believe it was patiently waiting all these years. I’m so incredibly happy this song finally found a home and that we get to share it with you!

—Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir via Instagram

It felt really special to record it now, because it’s been a long time since it was written, but it’s always kind of been there with us. It’s always kind of followed us around, even though it didn’t get recorded and put out there. I feel really glad about it, actually, because it’s the right time right now.

—Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir via Consequence Sound

The music video for “Phantom” is constructed in a way that resembles a friendly interaction between Of Monsters and Men’s present and past.

As the song title suggests, we can see a ghost. This ghosts is coloured in the same color scheme from FEVER DREAM’s lyric videos, and is wandering around well known landscapes, explored throughout My Head Is An Animal lyric videos. Since FEVER DREAM is Of Monsters and Men’s latest album, and My Head was their first one, this could be seen as the band revisiting their past, which is supported by the fact that “Phantom” was released for the 10th anniversay edition of their debut record.

It is worthy mentioning once more that the production company responsible for the music videos for “Phantom” is WeWereMonkeys. The same company that created all lyric videos for My Head Is An Animal, as well as two music videos for the same album and another one for FEVER DREAM.