Jonny Bell (bass, vocals), Andrew King (guitar), Kevin Stuart (drums) soon developed a reputation for eccentric liveshows. The group made a number of appearances on the 2008 F Yeah Tour and signed with Touch & Go Records in August of that year. By 2009, talk of anew full-length began circulating, and in April, Tentacles was released. That album would be the last new record on Touch & Go before the label drastically downsized in 2009, and Crystal Antlers were left to release their follow-up,Two-Way Mirror, on their own Recreation Ltd in July of 2011.

Their third full-length, Nothing Is Real, showcased the band as the original trio. It was released by Innovative Leisure in the fall of 2013. Crystal Antlers' debut for L.A.'s Innovative Leisure was recorded at bassist/vocalistJonny Bell's home studio Jazzcats.This set marks not only an extension of the band's garagey neo-speech roots,but an expansion into new sonic terrains using synths and drum machines, theydominate the basic guitar/bass/drums/organ attack & supplement it with noiseand texture. These 11 songs reveal that this trio has become not onlycomfortable in the recording studio, but with one another as musicians; they are willing to push themselves into a new red zone. All things tolled, Nothing Is Real evidences everything right about indie rock. Though it blisters with intensity, it boastswell-written songs illustrated by canny production, played with confident recklessness and vulnerable honesty.