Antelope
Reflector

5
...according to our Phil on 04 April 2007.

Dischord has been banging out records since year dot and this week we've decided to give our coveted album of the week to ANTELOPE with their cracking full length debut Reflector. The 1st time we heard this our ears pricked up in some post punk kind of ear pricking up experience. It's less than 30 minutes long so it doesn't out stay it's welcome. Short albums are what we need in this age of no attention span. In a nugget, we have  a jerky post punk unrock fest but there's much more to it. It's completely stripped down to the basics with the drums, bass, guitar and vocals sparsely weaving between each other to make some really special sounding tunes. It all sounds so effortless. Reflector is tight as a gnat's chuff..... I bet these are the dogs knackers live. I wrote a lot more than this but took it out cos I felt it was superfluous. I've said enough. It's a great record and we heartily endorse its goodness.

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What their label says...

*Mike and Bee have been playing together for years, most notably in the
Vertebrates. Justin is a bit of a musical renaissance man, as well as playing
guitar in Antelope he plays in Edie Sedgwick and is a former member of both,
the now inactive, El Guapo and the recently disbanded Supersystem.
*Together they are a very rhythm based 3-piece playing catchy, mesmerizing
riffs that give props to Lungfish though using the melody vs. repetition
equation to produce very different results that are equally as beautiful.
*`Reflector' is Antelope's first full-length, it has the same stripped- down
punk quality of their earlier two releases mixing up early 80's post punk
influence (The Cure and Joy Division) with skewed pop (XTC) and krautrock-like
rhythms.
*Tracklisting: 01. Reflector 02. Dead Eye 03. Contraction 04. Mirroring 05.
Justin Jesus 06. Wandering Ghosts 07. Flower 08. Concentration 09. The
Demon 10. Collective Dream