Bay Area garage-pop band The Mantles are set to release their latest musical offering, All Odds End on October 16 via Slumberland Records (pre-order on iTunes and on CD/LP). The album is available to stream a week early over at Stereogum and on SoundCloud.

What makes the Mantles the Mantles? Maybe it’s the idiosyncratic motion and energy of Michael Olivares’ vocals, the way they alternately stroll and hop assuredly over the music. Or maybe it’s the band’s sound itself, familiar and classic yet increasingly distinctive, and growing-with acoustic texture; keyboard hooks and licks; and resonant and representative drumbeats-to its deepest, warmest, fullest, and most colorful on their third album, All Odds End, a record that is quintessentially Mantles from the sheer sonic splendor and elation-and biting words-of the album-opening “Island” on through to the final harmony of “Stay.”
For this album Olivares, Weatherby, and lead guitarist Justin Loney were joined by Matt Bullimore on bass, a New Zealand native and member of Oakland’s Legs, and Carly Putnam on keyboard. These two new members energize the band into exploring territory that ranges from the staccato bursts and messy wisdom of “Police My Love” (which draws from a crazy variety of lyrical inspirations), to the country lilt of “Undelivered,” to the casually anthemic SF-to-LA tilt of “Best Sides.”People move, bands fall apart, cities change, but the Mantles abide and grow stronger, embodying their many-faceted name-planetary core-deep; incandescent; enveloping-a bit more with each new day, year, song and album. The Mantles are more and more the Mantles, and listening with dedication is like getting gifts. All Odds End, but the group continues to bloom.
 
Tour Dates:
 
10/17 Oakland, CA – WhiteHorse Bar (record release show)