Tantric

1	Breakdown 3:10
2	Live Your Life (Down) 4:30
3	I Don't Care 3:41
4	Paranoid 3:37
5	Revillusion 3:30
6	Mourning 4:20
7	Astounded 4:21
8	I'll Stay Here 4:11
9	Frequency 4:00
10	All to Myself 3:45
11	Hate Me 3:21
12	Inside Your Head 7:35

Barnes & Noble

Sometimes getting fired -- even from a job that looks pretty great from the outside -- isn't such a bad thing, as the core of Tantric discovered after being sacked from their collective previous gig backing the volatile Travis Meeks in Days of the New. While African-born, Portuguese-bred singer Hugo Ferreira adds a sharper edge to songs like "I Don't Care" and the snarling "Breakdown," the band are at their best when navigating the more nuanced territory of tracks like "All to Myself," which bobs and weaves along a sitar-driven melody line. As he did in Days, guitarist Todd Whitener captures the imagination through both sheer force (evident in the claustrophobic-sounding "Frequency") and subtle textures (like the ones he weaves into "Inside Your Head"). Heck, the band even manage to toss in a banjo solo, midway through "Hate Me," without conjuring up memories of Hee Haw. Such instances of shape-shifting tend to get in the way of the quartet's attempts to forge a distinct personality, but that's likely to emerge down the road -- and from the sound of it, Tantric are heading down that road for the long haul. David Sprague

All Music Guide

What do you do when the driving creative force behind your band turns out to be a raging egomaniac? Worse, that raging egomaniac thinks he's some sort of new rock god, channeling Jim Morrison in all his blustery, pretentious, Lizard King glory? Well, if you're Days of the New, you get a new singer and regroup after you're dismissed by your former boss and pretty much play the same sluggish snooze-rock as your old band. Hence, Tantric. Michael Gallucci