★★★★★
The Growlers are SoCal's modern psychedelic misfit pranksters. Brooks Nielsen's irreverent sense of humor is on display throughout Gilded Pleasures , as he delivers off-kilter lyrics in his always-deadpan, baked-throat rasp like "little girls don't last forever, enjoy them while you can" in "Dogheart II." The album's highlight, "Humdrum Blues," features a healthy wash of colorful and lysergic waves of slow-rolling psychedelic sway emanating from Matt Taylor's guitar...
- www.relix.com
2014-02-12
★★★★★
American band The Growlers, consisting of Brooks Nielsen, Matt Taylor, Scott Montoya, Anthony Braun Perry and Kyle Straka are back with their latest offering Gilded Pleasures. The nine track EP (definitely long enough to be considered an LP rather than EP) really shows the guys are from California, with a distinct surf rock sound apparent throughout the whole album...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
There's no question that The Growlers are a band with a strong work ethic. Hardly leaving the road for more than a week or two, the Californian five-piece worked on a number of self-released offerings before signing to FatCat records for this year's full length LP Hung at Heart. New EP Not. Psych! will be released exclusively in Europe and features seven brand new songs full of the band's jangly, surf-friendly indie pop...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-10-11
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare At the Gallows of a Rewrite In a resurgent milieu of psych and garage acts like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, a close follower would be remiss to neglect The Growlers, another California-based group with a revivalist bent--i.e. a fetish for sounding like that bargain-bin EP you found at Woolworth in '68...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-01-27
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