Antmusic EP by Adam & the Ants

The Antmusic EP, issued on Do It Records in 1982 and also known as The B-Sides, was the last single to carry the Adam and the Ants name, and it's a trip back down to the band's punk-era cellar. All three tracks, "Friends", "Kick" and "Physical", are Adam Ant originals that the early 'Antpeople' had long treasured. Decca, the label that first signed the Ants, had all of them on tape back in 1978: Snips produced "Kick" at RAK Studios in London, while Ant himself ran the other two sessions at Decca's own West Hampstead studio. "Friends" and "Physical" had also turned up on a John Peel session that July.

Set next to the Burundi-drum thunder of the hit years, these are wiry, nervy, bare-knuckle things, proof that before the chart success there was a scrappy London punk band. It was the final word: in March 1982 the group was dissolved and Ant went solo.

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