New Crystal Antlers - "Andrew"

Long Beach sextet Crystal Antlers' forthcoming Tentacles will ostensibly be the last new album released by Touch & Go. If that indeed proves to be the case, it's not a bad way to go out: Tentacles is a baker's dozen fuzzed, sweaty, and swinging psychedelic, expansive, and noisy garage rock (etc.) tracks. Expanding the scope of the self-titled 2008 EP that got them signed to T&G in the first place, these songs find the guys digging their feet in deeper, showcasing an even stronger reach. The album culminates in the moving 7-minute downtempo, synthesized, echo howled, and free-feedback finale "Several Tongues." For now, take a listen to something earlier on the program, the bluesy "Andrew," which we first saw in its live form.

Crystal Antlers - "Andrew" (MP3)

Tentacles is out 4/6 in the US and 4/7 in Europe via Touch & Go. They're good live:

02/27 - Verona, Italy @ Nuova Interzona
02/28 - Firenze, Italy @ Flog
03/01 - Vienna, Austria @ Arena
03/02 - Lausanne, Switzerland @ Le Romandie
03/04 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
03/05 - Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera
03/06 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
03/07 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Ekko
03/08 - Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Rotown
03/10 - London, UK @ White Heat, London
03/11 - Sheffield, UK @ The Harley
03/12 - Manchester, UK @ The Retro Bar
03/25 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress &
03/26 - San Diego, CA @ 4th & B, San Diego, CA #
03/27 - Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, CA #
04/21 - Vancouver, B.C. @ Commodore #
04/22 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox #
04/23 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge #
04/26 - Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Club Crown Rm
04/28 - The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA #

& w/ Monotonix
# w/ Cold War Kids

Posted at 1:29 PM by brandon in MP3
Tags: Crystal Antlers

13 Comments

Well if this track is anything to go by, I think T&G will have a pretty good swan song. The only release I'm more looking forward to this year rhymes with schmizzly bear.

Posted by: mouchette1 at 02/27/09 1:50 PM  | Reply
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mp3 link is broken

Posted by: ollie at 02/27/09 3:03 PM  | Reply
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Adjusted! You can now hear "Andrew."

Posted by: brandon  in reply to ollie's comment at 02/27/09 3:09 PM  | Reply
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Well, the link works now, but the file seems to be incomplete, Brandon. Unless the song really ends up abruptly mid-sentence like that at 2:05.

Posted by: ollie  in reply to ollie's comment at 02/27/09 5:03 PM  | Reply
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Hmm, I get the entire song. Maybe refresh the browser?

Posted by: brandon  in reply to ollie's comment at 02/27/09 5:08 PM  | Reply
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Who is that in your avatar?

Venom? Celtic Frost?

Posted by: Paper Werewolf  in reply to brandon's comment at 03/01/09 3:29 AM  | Reply
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so good.

Posted by: ∆B∑L at 02/27/09 5:06 PM  | Reply
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um, yeah- opening for cold war kids? they suck suck suck so baaaaaaaad. two years from now it'll be the other way around...

Posted by: the musicologist at 02/28/09 1:15 PM  | Reply
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R.I.P. Touch & Go.

Thanks for bringing us good listening music.

Posted by: facial hair at 02/28/09 3:33 PM  | Reply
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how come no one's made a hootie and the blowfish joke yet...?

Posted by: ummmm at 02/28/09 4:11 PM  | Reply
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yea, you should have, it would have been funny.

Posted by: joe shmiz  in reply to ummmm's comment at 02/28/09 5:44 PM  | Reply
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You might want to try reading that T&G press release again. They are going to continue as a label, but shuttered their distro wing.

Posted by: five four at 02/28/09 5:48 PM  | Reply
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am i the only who thinks this band sounds a whole lot like 3 Mile Pilot used to?

Posted by: Blastodon at 03/02/09 9:58 AM  | Reply
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