Spiny Anteaters Discography of CDs

Spiny Anteaters albums The third full-length from Ottawa's Spiny Anteaters further develops their unique sound, combining noisy pop structures, indie vocals, and half-realized melodies into strange and foggy constructions that occasionally wind up sounding like pop music again. The album's frequent turns into abstraction tend to work with this formula, and the result is a fine piece of semi-experimental pop. ~ Nitsuh Abebe

Spiny Anteaters music CDs Taken from a wide-ranging series of home recordings done at the same time the band was working on Last Supper, Well Laid Plans finds the Spiny Anteaters happily trying out a variety of warm and winning songs and styles, blending psych and shoegaze touches throughout to create a hour's worth of good listening. There's a great start in the shape of the appropriately titled "Sun Rise" -- it feels just like the titular event, a slow-building surge of sonic fire, a jam session that could go on forever as newer guitar parts get introduced in a beautiful glaze. From ...

Spiny Anteaters discography All Is Well is something of a masterpiece for fuzzy, lo-fi bedroom pop -- the Spiny Anteaters have a warm and subtle approach to presentation and a songwriting style that meshes perfectly with the idiosyncracies of their recording technique, giving All Is Well an occasional sense of near-perfection. There's also a simplistic purity to the record which is absent from the releases which followed it -- Current sounds a bit more like a rock band, and Last Supper dips its feet in ...

Spiny Anteaters songs The Spiny Anteaters' second album introduces a new sense of directness to the warm and fuzzy low-fi pop that characterized All is Well -- there's a bit of a slanted post-punk aesthetic in the record's most interesting compositional turns, as evidenced by a cover of Wire's "Lowdown." It's a sound that fits the band well, taking their low-fi indie on a brief rock holiday before developing the esoteric fuzz and spacy loops that would mark 1998's Last Supper -- Current still has ...