Entrance “Prayer Of Death”
Album Reviews | Apr 15th, 2007

Record Label: Tee Pee Records
Genre: Psych/Garage
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I like things that are different. They don’t have to be new, just different. So I like Entrance, who – yes – are a 60s psychedelic blues-rock throwback band, but that’s certainly different from today’s quote-unquote “60s-style garage bands.”
Entrance really taps into the heady, fuzzy psych vein of the era. Violins rock out the riffs on “Silence on a Crowded Train” and “Valium Blues,” sitars and tambourines drive “Requiem for Sandy Bull (RIP),” Hare Krishna-like chants make up “Never Be Afraid,” and a bubbly organ adds Houses of the Holy-ish murkiness to “Pretty Baby.”
But Entrance aren’t just lost in the past – I wouldn’t call their sound modern, but there is a post-punk element to their noisy garagitude. Unfortunately, an element of the past does hurt Entrance – the Golden Child-like vocals. The singer draws out lyrics in that self-important 60s hippy way that I can’t stand, and makes them sound holier than thou.
Come to think of it, I hate this 60s white-boy-spiritual hippy shit. I’m dropping them from 3.5 stars to 2.5. Sure, different is great, but cmon… Hare Krishna-like chanting? Grow a pair, dorks.
Bottom Line: 60s psych rock for today’s garage rock crowd. And hippies.
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