Classifieds - Ants On A Log

 Released: May 12

Coming in at roughly twenty minutes, Ants On A Log has quite a meandering quality to it. The two individual pieces are quite similar in texture and approach, utilizing a rather washed out combination of guitar and vocal loops to create a spacious yet sparsely populated soundscape that allows all the small intricacies of each sound to shine beautifully. There’s also a certain frailty to each of the individual pieces; the guitar, the thinnest of vocals, and a particular background ambiance that feels intentional, even if it is just the side effect of unintentional resonances. 

Between the two pieces, the first sounds like the livelier of the two with a thinner guitar and bright resonances. For the first half of it, it honestly feels a lot like the boring sun as it gradually warms everything it touches. The atmosphere is bright, but hazy. At about the halfway mark, everything fades out into a bit of gentle noise and an indiscernible vocal loop that gradually fades as a new twangy plucked instrument, presumably a guitar, enters the space. The second piece almost seems to move in reverse order, taking us first through the grayer tones of a twangy guitar with the slight break in the middle. However, even as the second half becomes brighter and more chipper, it still maintains an essence of the gloomier motifs heard earlier. But the structure certainly gives the album an overall even feeling, as if it simply starts from one point and moves in a manner that brings it back to the proximity of where it began.