Entrance * [Entrance]

1. Grim Reaper Blues
2. Silence on a Crowded Train
3. Requiem For Sandy Bull (R.I.P.)
4. Valium Blues
5. Pretty Baby
6. Prayer of Death
7. Lost in the Dark
8. Never Be Afraid
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 073
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Though they come from 21st-century Los Angeles, Entrance look like dead ringers for a band from 1967 Haight-Ashbury. Their mystically tinged psychedelic blues-rock is more Jon Spencer Blues Explosion than Grateful Dead, but the outfit nevertheless offers an entertaining tour through the musical fashions of a bygone era. Singer Guy Blakeslee's cheerfully anarchic vocals on "Grim Reaper Blues" conjure a stoner Doc Boggs, and for good measure there's also the prog-jazz of "Silence of a Crowded Train," the sitar-laden ersatz mysticism of "Requiem for Sandy Bull," and the genuinely haunting, Appalachian-sounding ballad, "Prayer of Death."
Critic Reviews

Uncut (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "PRAYER OF DEATH cooks up some real heavy weather. A sustained meditation on human mortality that sees Blakeslee's whinnying holler and choppy slide guitar bolstered by tidal swells of sitar."
CMJ (p.32) - "[T]here's a maniacal rush to PRAYER OF DEATH....The album contains moments of Stooges-ish bugged-outness..."
Vibe (p.130) - "[B]roader, denser, and more ornate than his previous work."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The sound is homemade, messy, mysterious, occasionally chaotic and ultimately triumphant."