Kevin Bronson on September 30th, 2016

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Teleskopes’ maiden outing “Criminal” — a rapturously anguished slab of shoegazing space-rock — is not beginners’ luck. The trio (singer-bassist Fox Fagan, guitarist Pelle Hillstrom and drummer Jesper Christensen) have played around L.A. for several years without releasing music. And Teleskopes’ members have impressive lineages, having been associated with acts like Modwheelmod, Forever Like Red, Abandoned Pools, Komox and UBYK, among others. Finally, in late 2014, they began laying down tracks at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606, which had acquired the Neve mixing desk from Sound City Studios, famous for recording albums by the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine and Nirvana. They fine-tuned the recordings in their home studio, got them mixed by Joe Chiccarelli and have an album ready for release, probably next year. Amid the atmospheric guitars and rhythmic slugfest of “Criminal” is a narrator trying to come to terms with the fact he is the son of one. For fans of Failure, Queens of the Stone Age and early Muse.  

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