ANT - IMPRINTS OF EMOTION feat AIRLINER - 7" SINGLE (JAN 2004)

Track extracts:

>> MOUNTAINS <<

>> BREATHE MY NAME <<

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IMPRINTS OF EMOTION
PLAYLOUDER.COM
You want to know how to make a worthwhilespin-off single? You could try listening to the latest from Ant, always our favourite member of Hefner (if only because he appeared the least self-conscious of the bunch). He's joined by a chap calling himself Airliner on the split 'Imprints Of Emotion' EP on Fortune & Glory, and a right stew of loveliness it is too. Ant's pair, 'Mountains' and the festively twinkly 'Breathe My Name', are no great departure for him, seeing as how they're sensitive-rather-than-saccharine tiny symphonies, but Airliner, though clearly hewn from the same cloth, is quite the revelation, with 'Always Up To You' especially feeling like a lost new acoustic classic.
Iain Moffat

I'm glad people still make records that sound like this.
Tortured souls alone with sensitive, barely there, voices. Kristian Rosengren (Airliner) and Ant Harding (ANT) ply the same fragile bedroom acoustics on this split 7" ep. Overly precious they may be but that's no bad thing around these parts.

Airliner relies on guitar and piano lines to set the heart trembling during 'Always up to you' and the effect is beautifully sombre. His second track 'Happiness' is the real gem though I'd say. A normal 'she's left me' tale told so simply and basic that it's affecting in a way only the most obvious words can be. Nothing is elaborated on as Kristian whispers into a 4-track in bedroom isolation with the street sounds clamouring up against his window.
ANT has been cooing over his lady friend a lot lately I can tell you. He has been singing songs to her at shows with words that only he and she know and making happy-sad records instead of, well, just plain sad ones. I kind of miss the days when ANT songs were filled with line after line of the most heartbreaking love gone wrong imaginable. The kind of words you'd steal to melt girls' hearts up and down the country if only to see the look on their faces. On this record you get both happy ANT and sad ANT, which is pretty much perfection. So the merrily strummed guitars on 'Mountains' and 'Breathe my name' do little to hide the sad shyness we've become used to with him. Nothing new then but I'm feeling thankful for just that.
Ian Cowen - Friends of The Heroes
www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk

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