Pitchfork

No-- not Crystal Castles, not the Jewelled Antler Collective... Crystal Antlers. This group from Long Beach sounds nothing like either of those bands and has nothing in common otherwise except for a lack of fear in the face of sonic chaos. "Vexation", from their new record EP, is slapped further down the road by its ass-kicking bassline as the wiry skronk of Andrew King's guitar and throat-shredding vocals of Jonny Bell recall earlier, rougher Les Savy Fav. Before the band collapses from exhaustion, the whole thing ends, over in just two minutes and change. Intense.

 

 

MP3:> Crystal Antlers: "Vexation"

[from EP; available now from the band]