When Antinomie put out their debut album last year, the band’s unclassifiable trajectory was fairly apparent. This was clearly a project completely indifferent to the way they were perceived by people who didn’t ‘get it.’ We got it, or at least we think we did. For the most part.
But how to predict the motions of a band with a sound so unique you’d need dousing rods to keep track? Well, the thing is… you really can’t, and to be fair that’s actually a good thing.
Antinomie has, more or less, a signature sound – the sound of genre itself being dreamed of, conceived of, but ultimately, totally transcended. They don’t sound like anyone else. It’s surreal as Cardiacs. It’s as jarring as YHWH NAILGUN. It’s as discordant as Horse Torso. But Antinomie doesn’t sound like any of them, and their new EP, titled in a text form that WordPress can’t even comprehend, is certainly proof:
The ability to not take yourself seriously is a quality often lauded, and for good reason – the less you judge yourself, the less you judge others, and in the process, the real you (and them) finally shows up. If anything, the band’s new EP is even less serious than their debut, which is saying something because Pareidolia really had some wide-eyed, Muppet fugue moments. But it worked, and it continues to work here, despite the criminally short runtime.
The EP almost seems like a meta-narrative of the absurdity of truth, especially when you consider the Levi Friedman comic strip artwork. Perhaps the band’s own blurb will clarify:
“Anthemic singalongs, ant¿nom¿e style! Whereas Pareidolia probed for truth in the recursive corridors of the interior, ant¿nom¿EPǃ guzzles external truth and vomits it right back up for others to feast on.”
Well, alright then! If things, somehow, feel normal these days and you’re looking for a real sonic shakeup, Antinomie’s new EP is a great start. But there is probably something like a 1/1,000,000 chance it will drive you actually insane. Luckily we hit that milestone a long time ago.
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