Sticky Antlers
Photo & design by Sticky Antlers
Sticky Antlers were always bound to stick out like a bleeding corpse at a gospel tent revival and they definitely do not give you more of the same.
Emerging from the dismal greyness of Pretoria with a "haunting, sometimes hysterical sound" (Fred de Vries review in Weekender, December 13-14 2008), the music is fuelled by human ignorance, feverish nightmares, auditory hallucinations, befriending insects, ecstatic love, apocalyptic visions and daytime TV gibberish.
Although the group uses a very traditional setup of drums, bass and guitars they still manage to elude easy definition, one can only describe the diverse and intense sounds as energetic, tense, noisy, beautiful, spontaneous, and unpredictable. Incorporating tribal chants, sonic freak-outs and motorik beats driven into a frenzied almost trance-like state, Sticky Antlers offers the audience something altogether different and much more unusual.