Stream: The Entrance Band, ‘Spider’

Kevin Bronson on December 5th, 2013

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The Entrance Band – guitarist Guy Blakeslee, bassist Paz Lenchantin and drummer Derek James – has returned from what the trio has admitted was a dark place, “a long tunnel of addiction, anxiety, sorrow and sadness,” they told Consequence of Sound. Their first album in four years, “Face the Sun,” harbors none of the stoner-rock muddle that weighed down their self-titled 2009 album. Instead it’s a lyrically and musically more articulate conveyance of the psych-rock magic the threesome first found on its 2006 release “Prayer of Death.” On “Face the Sun,” singer-shredder Blakeslee, sober now for almost two years, moves in and out of the shadows confidently and often surprisingly. Prog-rock, post-rock, pop-rock – the Entrance Band touches all the bases in its own cathartic, mystical manner. The album was made in cahoots with Farmer Dave Scher (who produced and contributed some lap steel), and the songs are flavored with harpsichord, mandolin, flute and organ. “Face the Sun” came out last month on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records, one of those albums that deserves its manifestation on purple-and-gold-spattered vinyl.