Crystal Antlers, the California psych rockers, are streaming their third full-length album 'Nothing Is Real' in full via The New York Times site, in advance of its release on October 14 via Innovative Leisure.
Featuring cover art - as above - by famed surf/skate/graffiti legend C.R. Stecyk III, the aalbum was recorded as the band return to its three-[iece roots of Jonny Bell, vocalist/bass, Kevin Stuart on drums, and guitarist Andrew King.
'Nothing Is Real' is Crystal Antlers veering from songs that rattle and ricochet through desolation to delirium. Opener 'Pray' sounds like "what would have happened if Black Flag’s Greg Ginn had produced the first Psychedelic Furs single"; while 'Persephone' and 'Anywhere But Here' take on the fast-paced rhythm of "the Wipers with the inside-out guitar melodies of the Pixies".
As Bell puts it, “With each album, we’ve tried to figure out ways to include more of our whole selves in the recordings, while still keeping things cohesive. And from growing up in punk bands, there always needs to be that little element of something that might piss someone off. We might be using a drum machine—but we’re gonna use it completely the wrong way.”
Click to listen to the album in full here
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