6.11.2008

The Crystal Antlers


Pitchforkmedia has unveiled their out of left field 2008 Best New Music/Band: Long Beach, California's own Crystal Antlers! 8.5 rating! Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

A quick rundown:

  • Les Savy Fav comparison: check
  • Lo-fi: check
  • Psych-Rock: check
  • Latin Influenced: double check
  • Comets on Fire comparison: check
  • Mars Volta keyboardist as producer: check
  • My Morning Jacket comparison: check
  • 80's era white rimmed sunglasses: check
  • Politically Incorrect "Native American" clothing: check
  • Neon colors: check
  • "Summer album:" check
  • Hawaiian shirt = California Hipster: check
  • Drummer named "Sexual Chocolate:" check
Is Long Beach the new Baltimore or Brooklyn? Discuss.

-johnson!

2 comments:

Oxymann said...

All this instead of finally getting around to creating some critical discourse on the most hostly contested classic/dud album of the year, Lil Wayne's The Carter III. People either hate it or love it, but so far the fork's been mum on the subject, instead going the obvious route by trashing an old standard (MMJ) and ejaculating praise on an album nobody's ever heard--all in the name of being the first to do so. Fuck this political bullshit.

Oxymann said...

I meant "hotly." Damn P4k just makes me jumpy.