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ENTRANCE - Prayer Of Death
| PitchFork | | If Baltimore indie bluesman Guy Blakeslee previously got his blues direct from the source, then on Prayer of Death, his third full-length as Entrance, he orders through a middleman-- namely, 60s psychedelia. Here, he electrifies his blues riffs with strong doses of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, which strengthens instead of dilutes them. By emphasizing this aspect of his music, Blakeslee is essentially trading his white blues jones-- which at best was a hard sell, at worst insufferable-- for a new set of pretensions, and whether he's taking a short detour or cutting a new trail for himself remains to be seen....full text |
| | Blogcritics | | Prayer of Death is a frightening, intoxicating spiritual mess of dark bluesy drama....full text |
| | TinyMixTapes | | If ever there was a time and place for Guy Blakeslee (a.k.a. Entrance) to release Prayer of Death, his third proper long-player, that time is the present — on a number of counts. In the current climate of senseless and seemingly perpetual war, Blakeslee's neo-hippie sensibilities, coupled with the spiritual leanings that are manifest on the album, serve as a primal scream, of sorts, for peace....full text |
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