Frantic for ANTICS

So, tumbling across our email inbox the other day, we encountered a very pleasant e-mail from a lovely chap by the name of ANTICS. ANTICS kindly supplied us with a couple of his "tunes" for us to peruse and we found ourselves more than faintly impressed by what was on offer. ANTICS is a solo artist hailing from Battersea which immediately puts him in great company, with pop luminaries such as the So Solid Crew, Simon Le Bon and Dannii Minogue residing at various points in the area (or, at least, that's what Wikipedia tells us and that's NEVER WRONG!).


Anyhoo, ANTICS kindly supplied us with a couple of tracks to listen to, our favourite of which was Headspace which you can listen to and comment on in the handy player below:


  ANTICS - HEADSPACE by AnticsUK


Our favourite thing about Headspace is the unashamed Saturday Night Fever vibe that the track is rocking. ANTICS clearly has a great instinct for making solid pop/dance music. He's got a commanding beat supporting solid vocals and great lyrics. Which, at the end of the day, is pretty much "job done" isn't it? Clicking on the handy little downward arrow will let you download a copy of the track and we very much hope that it will sit as nicely alongside your popular music collection as it does ours.



There are more tracks available on ANTICS' MySpace page which will give you a more comprehensive idea of what he's all about. Superstar is undoubtedly a highlight, which takes things in a very different direction to Headspace. Certainly, ANTICS is a work in progress at this stage; whilst the dance vibe is there throughout there are hints of more versatile leanings in tracks like This Love. Nonetheless, these early glimpses show genuine promise and we certainly look forward to seeing how things develop from him from here. And not just because the novelty of writing someone's name in CAPS LOCK clearly won't wear off for a while.