Hear a new song from The Mantles’ upcoming LP

Listen to Shadows Of Your Step from The Mantles

San Francisco garage-pop band The Mantles share a new track from their upcoming LP Long Enough To Leave, out June 18 on Slumberland Records. Listen to “Shadow of Your Step” The group will embark on an East Coast tour in July with support from Juan Wauters of The Beets. Full tour dates listed below.

San Francisco/Oakland’s The Mantles have been charting a unique path through the Bay Area’s storied garage/pop scene since 2007. The early shows were loose & loud Velvets/Nuggets-bashing, always with weirdly catchy songs & oddball chord changes. Their first singles saw them honing their sound, building towards their excellent 2009 self-titled debut album (on Siltbreeze) and follow-up EP on Mexican Summer. Loosely aligning with artists like White Fence and Ty Segall, The Mantles thoroughly modernize and personalize the folk-rock tradition.

Now on Long Enough To Leave,The Mantles still color outside the lines but dial a cleaner, more infectious sound. SF’s Kelley Stoltz (Sub Pop) recorded the new album with enough savvy to make it pop while keeping the performances idiosyncratic & affecting. Sharp ears may spot bits of early Love, New Zealand’s Flying Nun label and LA’s Paisley Underground, but The Mantles are very far from revivalists and have more song-writing and arranging skill at their disposal than many bands could hope to have.

Long Enough To Leave is both impressionistic and psychedelic – guitar melodies evoke lyrical themes in equal measure to the plaintive words of vocalist Michael Olivares, whose frank and poetic take on ordinary reality strips familiar themes of their clichés. The band plays with a musical synchronicity and clarity that enlivens tunes like album opener “Marbled Birds” and the rocking “Reason’s Run.”

Tour Dates:

06/14 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop (Record Release show) @

06/22 Oakland, CA – White Horse Bar ~

07/05 Washington, DC – Black Whiskey*
07/06 Baltimore, MD – Club K*
07/07 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Neck Tie*
07/08 Harrisburg, PA – MakeSpace*
07/09 Brooklyn, NY – Shea Stadium*
07/10 New Haven, CT – BAR*
07/11 Cambridge, MA – Lilypad*
07/12 New Bedford, MA – No Problemo Taqueria*
07/13 New York, NY – Cake Shop #*

* = w/ Juan Wauters of The Beets

@ = w/ The Bats, Legs

~ = w/ Kelley Stoltz

# = w/ Piano Movers and Pale Lights

The Mantles

Long Enough To Leave

(Slumberland Records)
Street Date: June 18, 2013

1. Marbled Birds

2. Hello

3. Long Enough To Leave

4. Reason’s Run

5. Raspberry Thighs