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Clear Lake Forest

The Black Angels

Clear Lake Forest

EP follow-up to 2013's Indigo Meadow from the psychedelic Austin five-piece, originally released on Record Store Day

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Blue Horizon
UK Release date
21/07/2014
US Release date
22/07/2014
  1. 8.5 |   Beardfood

    The Black Angels have grown into a forcefully wonderful melodic band, with gyrating guitar and bass rhythms that psychosomatically control and grasp
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  2. 8.5 |   Paste Magazine

    The Black Angels have the wherewithal to pack in enough volleying moods that you feel like someone has sprinkled DMT into your smokes
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    The Black Angels’ psych scholarship pays dividends here
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  4. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    They don't always get it right all of the time, but boy when they do, it's first class
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  5. 6.6 |   Pitchfork

    There’s a depth and richness in both texture and songwriting that show glimpses of a new direction, one that might free them from their own drone-rock noose
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  6. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Calling the Black Angels a "'60s throwback" barely begins to describe the band's indebtedness to all those groovy records that baby boomers wore out sometime during the Nixon administration
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  7. 6.0 |   The Music

    The only detraction – and it is a mighty one – is that there just isn’t enough meat on the record to sink one’s teeth into
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