Eden Ants – July/August 2005
Who: Eden Ants
What: perfect picnic pop
Where: Toronto, ON
To Contact: (416) 428-6958, , www.edenants.com.
Produced by ex-Joydrop member Tom McKay, Eden Ants six-song EP, hole.punch.litter, invade pop territory with some adventure. From the quirky plea of “Moving Out” to the standouts (and potential hits) of killer stomps “Advertisements” and “Some Hope For Us”, the band is all-out fun. Comprised of main songwriter and vocalist Adymm Ender; his brother, Rob Ender on guitar; Ryan MacMaster on drums; and Joe False on bass, Eden Ants have been at it since 2000, and with a name like theirs have actually gigged at family picnics, not to mention underground raves and a burlesque events. But they’ve been hitting the “normal” live circuit too. It was actually at a NXNE barbecue last year that Eden Ants met McKay and gave him a copy of its 2002 EP, Losing. Touch, which reportedly sold out of all 500 units. McKay, whose production credits include Palomino and The Venafro Cafe Orchestra in Glasgow, Scotland, began working with the band in Toronto in December. They cut the six songs at Rob Ender’s KingSpin Studios, a residential loft where neighbours weren’t too pleased with the “noise,” and then McKay then asked his friend, New York-based Mark Plati (David Bowie, The Cure, Prince), to mix it. Call it perfect picnic pop, gay and cool at the same time.