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.
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
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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.
mp3 link is broken
Adjusted! You can now hear “Andrew.”
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.
Hmm, I get the entire song. Maybe refresh the browser?
Who is that in your avatar?
Venom? Celtic Frost?
so good.
um, yeah- opening for cold war kids? they suck suck suck so baaaaaaaad. two years from now it’ll be the other way around…
R.I.P. Touch & Go.
Thanks for bringing us good listening music.
how come no one’s made a hootie and the blowfish joke yet…?
yea, you should have, it would have been funny.
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.
am i the only who thinks this band sounds a whole lot like 3 Mile Pilot used to?