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Tickets Crystals
Studio album by Bardo Pond
Released	June 6, 2006
Recorded	2005–2006
Studio	The Lemur House, Philadelphia, PA
Genre	Space rock psychedelic rock post-rock shoegaze freak folk drone
Length	77:11
Label	ATP Recordings
Producer	Michael Gibbons, Bardo Pond
Bardo Pond chronology
On the Ellipse (2003) Tickets Crystals (2006) Bardo Pond (2010)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Gigwise
Mondosonoro	1/10
Ox-Fanzine	7/10
Pitchfork Media	6.2/10
Popmatters	8/10
Stylus	B−

Ticket Crystals is the seventh studio album by Bardo Pond. It was released on June 6, 2006. The album features a cover of The Beatles' song "Cry Baby Cry".

Reception

Like its predecessors, the album received largely positive reviews from critics. Fred Thomas of Allmusic found the "gentler" album to be "drenched in dubby reverb and delay, tucking its more menacing tones in layers of starlit musical wandering and resonating the most on subdued numbers like the sprawling "Isle" and a hazy reading of the Beatles' "Cry Baby Cry."" Jennifer Kelly of Popmatters considered the music to be "beautiful and disturbing" in its combinations of "freak folk, drone and psychedelic metal." Gigwise hailed it as a "damn loud and a damn fine album", while Eric Hill of Exclaim! called it the band's best album since Lapsed.

More mixed reviews came from Cameron Macdonald of Stylus who found the band to be stylistically stagnating with the album, and criticized the closing track "Montana Sacra II" as being " great opportunity squandered." In an otherwise positive review, Christian Maiwald of Ox-Fanzine found Sollenberger's vocals to be occasionally distracting & criticized the songs as being too short. Pitchfork's Mia Lily Clarke criticized the "overwhelming" use of flute & some of its "cloying prog mayhem."

A negative review came from Spanish magazine Mondosonoro, which scored the album a 1 out of 10.

Track listing

All songs by Bardo Pond, except as noted.

CD track listing

1. "Destroying Angel" – 9:38
2. "Isle" – 11:13
3. "Lost Word" – 6:29
4. "Cry Baby Cry" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:56
5. "FC II" – 18:16
6. "Moonshine" – 10:45
7. "Endurance" (lyrics by Gary Snyder)– 5:09
8. "Montana Sacra II" – 10:45

Vinyl track listing (2013 reissue)

Side A

1. "Destroying Angel" – 9:38
2. "Isle" – 11:13

Side B

1. "Lost Word" – 6:29
2. "Cry Baby Cry" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:56
3. "Endurance" (lyrics by Gary Snyder)– 5:09

Side C

1. "FC II" – 18:16

Side D

1. "Moonshine" – 10:45
2. "Montana Sacra II" – 10:45

Personnel

Bardo Pond

• Isobel Sollenberger – Vocals, Flute, Violin
• John Gibbons – Guitar, Synth, Percussion
• Michael Gibbons – Guitar, Producer, Engineer
• Clint Takeda – Bass
• Ed Farnsworth – Drums

Additional musicians

• Christina Madonia – Second Vocals on "Destroying Angel"
• Tom Greenwood – Guitar on "Lost Word"

References

1. "Bardo Pond: Ticket Crystals". PopMatters.com. June 12, 2006.
2. ^ "Ticket Crystals - Bardo Pond | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
3. ^ "GIGWISE, Bardo Pond - 'Ticket Crystals' (ATP) Released 19/06/06". 15 April 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-04-15. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
4. ^ "Noticias música indie". Mondosonoro.com. 20 September 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
5. ^ Deutschland, Ox Fanzine, Solingen. "Review". Ox-fanzine.de. Retrieved 6 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. ^ "Bardo Pond: Ticket Crystals". Pitchfork.com.
7. ^ Kelly, Jennifer (12 June 2006). "Bardo Pond: Ticket Crystals". PopMatters.com. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
8. ^ "Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals - Review - Stylus Magazine". Stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
9. "Bardo Pond Ticket Crystals". exclaim.ca.
10. Goldberg, Michael Alan. "Ticket Crystals". Detroit Metro Times.
11. "Bardo Pond Ticket Crystals". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

• 2006 albums
• Bardo Pond albums
• ATP Recordings albums