Big first album from Long Beach's answer to Osmium, Guru Guru and fearful questions about Echoplexes and Vox Jaguars. Crystal Antlers here discovers an awesome sense of atmosphere, spacing out the rippers which fall off them like baby scorpions from a doting mother with Faust-style interludes of tone and blur. Future classics alternate with the kind of spaced-out mood pieces that Hawkwind used to let 10,000 panting longhairs catch their breath. Features the missing prequel to a song from a record bankrolled by a bank robber. This is a beautiful gatefold LP that will prove to skeptical visitors just how sophisticated your taste has recently become.

"Now Tentacles, the Antlers’ debut full-length as well as the gum-studded end of Touch and Go, falls into familiar grooves—songs that fly by on Comets on Fire-like orbits between heavy breaths from the band’s bottom-end. When a song occasionally drops back to solid ground, it’s fired back up again by a burst of propulsive drums or some well-timed keyboards, bumped up on the likes of synth-stuttering opener “Painless Sleep,” “Glacier” and others. But it’s the burners—”Dust,” “Andrew” and “Tentacles”—that provide the real power, sending the album off onto a crucial course. " -- Miles Clements (L.A. Record)

Tracklist:

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