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Does Tentacles live up to those high standards? Nah, but it doesn’t embarrass itself, and that’s praise enough.
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MojoTheir debut full-length more than makes good on the attention they've been receiving. [May 2009, p.103]
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Crystal Antlers need to allow the sounds of their instruments to serve a compositional goal in this way more often, rather than simply using them to bash through their songs.
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Apart from the nice flourishes and an undoubtedly authentic-sounding replication of mid- to late-'60s underground psychedelia, this album seems to have been something of a misfire, lacking a convincing emotional undertow, or sufficient clarity in its musical presentation to engage or entrance the listener.
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These tracks are lifeless, and the multitude of sounds turns to mud, eventually eating itself.
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Tentacles’ more focused psych punk feels formulaic, underdeveloped and disappointing.