EP Review: Antipole - Marble (2021)

I’ve been a bit quiet over the festive new-year period, but with it being a relatively Covid-free summer down here at the bottom of the world, I decided I needed to get out and about more, and spend a little less time slaving over a hot keyboard writing obscure blogposts.

So anyway, I’m just checking in to give a shout out to longtime blog favourites Antipole, and to note that the Anglo-Norwegian collective have released a new EP called Marble. It consists of four tracks, with the title track being a brand new foray into very familiar territory … that of guitar-led dark and dreamy melodic post-punk. 

Well, it is, and it isn’t. ‘Marble’ (the track) is all of that, sure, and yet another fine example of the fastidious attention to detail offered by Karl Morten Dahl, Eirene, and Paris Alexander when releasing work under the Antipole moniker. But I really couldn’t have anticipated just how well that same track would translate into a banging dance number under the guise of the Molchat Doma remix. (Molchat Doma being a Belarusian post-punk outfit). If the original is a retro-flavoured nod to the 80s, then the roots of the remix are firmly planted in the techno-drenched 90s. 

The remaining two tracks on the EP, ‘Narcissus’ and ‘Someday 45’ will already be familiar to Antipole fans, as both appeared - in different form - on Antipole’s stunning full-length debut Northern Flux back in 2017. ‘Narcissus’ gets the edit treatment, while the latter benefits from an extended mix. 

Have a listen and grab a download at Antipole's Bandcamp page: