Tentacles

Crystal Antlers - Tentacles

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Artist: Crystal Antlers
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Music Label: Touch & Go Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Painless Sleep
  2. Dust
  3. Time Erased
  4. Andrew
  5. Vapor Trail
  6. Tentacles
  7. Until The Sun Dies (Part 1)
  8. Memorized
  9. Glacier
  10. Foot of The Mountain
  11. Your Spears
  12. Swollen Sky
  13. Several Tongues

Music reviews of Tentacles

Music Review: A mediocre start
Rating: 2 Stars

Long Beach noise, garage and organ fueled soul sextet Crystal Antlers pack an insane amount of freak filled energy onto their debut album "Tentacles." Equal parts Sonic Youth and The Animals, the Antlers offer a take no prisoners hold through this album. Coming in at an abbreviated 40 minutes, "Tentacles" offers a clamorous listening experience featuring a wide dosage of ramshackle tunes. It's not that these tunes are flimsy, it's just seems like they're held together by junkyard cinder blocks.

Opener "Painless Sleep" is anything but, featuring a monotonous organ intro that generally gives way to a shouted vocal. While "Dust" sounds like what might had happened if one of the Allmans was electrocuted during the middle of the live cut of "Whipping Post." It isn't until "Andrew" that things mellow out somewhat and we get a song that Eric Burden could have sung. Things get skronky afterwards, and it seems that Crystal Antlers forgot to pack the tunes on the next couple of tracks. It's not until "Glacier" that the band finds it's footing again.

As the album dissolves into experimentalism, it's hard not to skip ahead to find something resembling a melody. "Swollen Sky" redeems things a bit but not for long as closer "Several Tongues" takes things into the abyss. Had "Tentacles" been whittled down to an EP, it would have been a better listen without the extraneous filler that preoccupies a large part of the album.
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Description of Tentacles

"Tentacles" finds the Antlers exploding through the unclaimed space between 60s garage toughs like the Music Machine and the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru and Les Rallizes Denudes, and the mechanized motor soul of "Osmium"-era Parliament. It's an album that functions as an organism - it breathes, it sleeps, it wakes up hungry and ready to chase something down.

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