pentacles

"... When it's done well, garage rock delivers visceral thrills with tight, no-bullshit impact. The parameters are narrow and familiar, but the effects can be oh so satisfying. Oakland quartet the Pentacles excel at these garage-rock maneuvers, but unlike many in the style, they emphasize immediately infectious melodies over abrasiveness and rawness..." DAVE SEGAL - The Stranger (Seattle)

"...the Pentacles are a surprisingly good band. For better or for worse, we are in the midst of a seemingly unending garage rock revival. It gives me a fair amount of joy to say that the Pentacles are a good band, and what’s more, they’re a band that stands out. One doesn’t have to be stuck in the mire that is revivalist garage-band fandom to understand how the Pentacles are different from the rest of the bunch– the differences are made clear almost immediately, though they remain within the tenets of the genre. The Pentacles play with sparseness and fullness, and they play with volume to a literal degree. The tempos speed up and slow down significantly and to say that the volume changes are significant would be an understatement. These guys are shockingly loud when they want to be..."Gabriel Arguelles - SSG Music