If you remember, we’ve teased the Crystal Antlers‘ debut LP Tentacles a few weeks ago on undomondo. I’ve spent the time in between listening to it and I can confidently say that it still doesn’t cease to amaze. True, their name has hipsterism written all over and how many more “Crystal somethings” we can tolerate might be hot topic, but if you are into the new jangly, noisy, power pop/punk school coming frmo NY and LA, like No Age, Wavves, Vivian Girls, Cause-Co Motion et al, Crystal Antlers’ Tentacles is a must have from 2009.

Thanks to being miles apart we can’t experience their live shows which are supposedly electric but after a few listens, it’s safe to say their own brand of garage rock is way more sophisticated than Wavves’ or Vivian Girls’ three chord punkism. 13 tracks of noisy and chaotic but at the same time accessible punk/rock with layers of hot FX fuzz sprinkled on top.

60s garage toughs like the Music Machine and the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru and Les Rallizes Denudes (whose ever-present turbine whine serves as the sound of the Crystal Antlers’ circulatory system) and the mechanized motor-soul of Osmium-era Parliament. Raw want meets raw power on songs like the title track and “Until The Sun Dies Part 1,” which push “Black To Comm” break-outs into “What’s Goin’ On?” sentiments while the trademark Antlers organ howls at lights on the horizon. Touch and Go