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I was in love with their little lo-fi debut album The Penguin League, and thankfully their newest album Constellations doesn’t suffer from overproduction, preserving that undefinable (but probably “cute”) charm without making it sound forced. Kudos and tapping feet to these dudes.
Antarctica Takes It! are six incredibly young and sparkling people (though apparently it started more or less as a one man project by some guy called Dylan) devoted to joyful and harmonizing pop that still carries a subtle amount of delightful melancholia, somehow reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian and pretty close to what their transatlantic soul mates of Fanfarlo are doing at the moment. Antarctica Takes It! are getting very warm reception in the whole Bay Area right now, and listening to Constellations, the title track of their sophomore effort, it’s not hard to see why.
The label have made the albums title track available as a free download. The band have grown since their 2006 début and it shows here. The song initially weaves a tangled web before becoming unstuck to great effect.
