Audio By Carbonatix
Remember when you were in high school, and your friends were in that weird funk-rock crossover band? They played, like, every weekend, and even though the band wasn’t really your thing, they were good at what they did, so you went to their shows? Be the Ant could be that band. From the opening track (“Marmaduke”) on, vocalist Erik Petersen’s voice fluctuates between catchy and grating, often terrifyingly doubled up, as if to accentuate its ability to punch out all other instruments in the mix. Electric guitar twiddling and needling and jerking also hams up the record so much that underlying bass and drum sounds are barely a lumpy afterthought. Who knows — maybe Be the Ant is just so far ahead of its time, we aren’t catching the throwback references yet.
