Speaker: Dylan Northcott
Tell us the name of the album you are reviewing. Who is it by?
Dylan Northcott: I just listened to the album Guide to Raising Anteaters by the Anteaters, which is a pretty heavy rock album from a Sydney rock trio. It is very, very solid.
Is there a standout song for you?
Dylan Northcott: Rather than necessarily a favorite song on the album, I have a pairing that I really, really enjoyed, which was; "what we all really want" into "Day of the Anteater. I thought the contrast between the two songs were really cool. Obviously they both stand out on their own merit, but together, because they're so different, it really made them both, they helped each other up instead of competing. What we really want, the first one, is this really cool defiant, it's like almost anthemic. heavier song, it's richer, it's deeper, and then it transfers into, "Day of the Anteater", which is so funky, it's just this really cool mix and just change of pace. The transition between them was, really, really cool and it really grabbed my attention and it stayed with me as even as I listened to like the rest of the album, and especially because I listened over two sessions. So the first time I listened to it, the combination of those two songs really stuck with me.
Tell us more.....what did you think of the record?
Dylan Northcott: Overall, the record is a very solid rock record, you know, a lot of the tones in a very heavy and crunchy, like garage centric tones. The guitar especially has, a garage rock sound to it, but then it does often transform into these like more lighter riffs, which I thought were really cool, The juxtaposition between those two I thought really, really worked well, much like those two favorite songs. A lot of the vocals on the album are very rough, like, in a good way. Not rough, like unfinished, but rough, like, this is, this is crunchy. This is, I wanna, I wanna hear this at Tomcat. I wanna hear this in a cool dive bar in the city somewhere on a Wednesday night. Very, very cool. And then the way , the guitar and the drums, especially worked together, I thought was really cool. There was a really couple of good segments on one of them was on obelisk, I believe, and then the other one was on "One Day" where the vocals cut out and it's left solely to the guitar and the drums, and it just shreds, It sounds really sick. I'm a big fan of, that way, though that is towards the end of the album, and it's like a really cool way to come and draw it into a close. I thought it was very slowed album. Good job, guys.
