To be fair, Antiform is more than just drum'n'bass, and they ride the genre's pulsing gauntlet to the point where they almost become a rock band.
There's the industrial-dance crunch of
Fight It Out
,
Turn It Up
is a Jilted Generation-era Prodigy concoction of electronic rock, and the Linkin Park drum'n'bass of
Bury Me
has all the subtlety of fellow Australian electronic bogans Pendulum.
Still, if you like Pendulum then you'll like Antiform. The energy and vigour of
City In Exile
can't be faulted - it'll wear you out - but the thing is, at times, rather than stealing the best of retro and making it their own it just sounds a little dated.
Anitform are at their best when they stick to their roots on the rolling Shapeshifter-style drum'n'bass of
Crash
(to which you could dance all night) and the bass-plumbing smoothness of
Artificial Intelligence
with Agent Alvin.
Scott Kara
