When the tempo drops, the problems begin. As tracks like "Red Socks Pugie" and "Heavy Water" slow down, the band loses its crispness and instead of weaving around one another the instruments tread on each others toes, with good hooks lost in a murky coagulate. Worse, Philippakis' voice feels more exposed.
It's a blunt tool at best, a kind of blank bark: each word given the same pained heft. On the album's longest track, "Big Big Love Fig. Electric shocks! He's demanding our attention but, without any discernible emotional context, doing nothing to earn it. The effect is excruciating. These moments of misplaced weight make Antidotes hard to recommend, but there are good ideas and moments all over the record. The delicate "Olympic Airways" makes a wistful virtue of the drones and echoes that bog the band down elsewhere, and even finds a prettier register to Philippakis' vocals.
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