The Mantles profile picture

The Mantles

About Me


progress, not perfection.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/01/2006
Band Members: Michael (guitar/vocs), Virginia (drums), Matt (bass), Drew (guitar)
Influences: stanky blues
Sounds Like: proclaimers/hawkwind
Record Label: Dulc-I-Tone Records / Mt St Mtn / Siltbreeze
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

review of our new 7 inch on mt st mtn in siltblog

http://siltblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/thats-life-how-hell-sho uld-i-know.html
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:02:00 GMT

Mantles in Guardian's weekly picks

The MantlesThis San Fran foursome creates aspellbinding whirr of reverb-soaked psych sound, with disparate '80sinfluences that range from Kiwi rock to the era's garage revival. Theirlo-fi drone-pop is...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:10:00 GMT

review in siltbreeze blog

This 7" ep from a SF group called The Mantles really stokes the node in it's uncanny similarity to old school Paisley Underground, you know, before it had been so sadly tagged. The strains, strums &am...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Byron Coley reviews our 7" in The Wire

by Byron Coley in his "Size Matters" column in The Wire: THE MANTLES "Burden" Dulc-i-Tone 7""The Mantles are a San Francisco pop trio with a slightly vague and very interesting sound. What they create...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:21:00 GMT

mantles preview in the sf bay guardian

December 12th, by Kimberly Chun What's on your Mantles, San Francisco's unsung pink and blue little stars twinkling almost imperceptibly in our fair city's formidable psych-pop firmament? The first ti...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:52:00 GMT

our Burden single reviewed in Dusted Magazine

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/664
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:59:00 GMT

get your mantles 7 inch!

you want one? you need one? simply go to www.dulcitonerecords.com and the magic can happen (thanks to matt roberts)! one 7", 4 entire songs! we recorded this baby a year ago, but it is still dear to o...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:29:00 GMT