{"id":3746,"date":"2011-10-09T19:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:02:28","slug":"crystal-antlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/crystal-antlers\/","title":{"rendered":"CRYSTAL ANTLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-CRYSTAL-ANTLERS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3747\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-CRYSTAL-ANTLERS.jpg\" alt=\"CRYSTAL ANTLERS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-CRYSTAL-ANTLERS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-CRYSTAL-ANTLERS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>C<\/strong><strong>RYSTAL ANTLERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Two-Way Mirror<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/crystalantlers<\/p>\n<p>Given their punk roots, Crystal Antlers were surprised by the prog-rock comparisons that greeted their excellent 2009 debut, <em>Tentacles<\/em>. The follow-up is bound to draw more, as the California quintet expands on its Doors-do-hardcore psychedelic thrash, trying sun-bleached pop on \u201cWay Out\u201d and way-out rock on \u201cSun-Bleached.\u201d On \u201cSummer Solstice\u201d the band manages mellow beach music without sounding like the surf-pop revivalists crowding the indie scene. Elsewhere, the default sound remains strike-and-recoil guerilla garage. Rather than steamroll ahead, these songs bunch and buckle with drum rolls, searing organ riffs and singer Jonny Bell\u2019s harshest syllables hitting in unison. It\u2019s not pure prog, but it sure sounds like progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRYSTAL ANTLERS Two-Way Mirror myspace.com\/crystalantlers Given their punk roots, Crystal Antlers were surprised by the prog-rock comparisons that greeted their excellent 2009 debut, Tentacles. The follow-up is bound to draw more, as the California quintet expands on its Doors-do-hardcore psychedelic thrash, trying sun-bleached pop on \u201cWay Out\u201d and way-out rock on \u201cSun-Bleached.\u201d On \u201cSummer Solstice\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,2573,10159,2482,2571,2572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}