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Chris Thomson doesn’t live there anymore, but otherwise Antimony sounds much like Circus Lupus, the band its members were three-quarters of. On its debut single, bassist Seth Lorinczi and guitarist Chris Hamley bellow as drummer Arika Casebolt leads an infernal shuffle—sort of like the Fall, but meaner, leaner, and faster. The trio’s tunes are typically cryptic—the front cover even reduces the platter’s contents to “Sb,” the symbol for antimony, one of the lesser-known elements—although you can hear someone enunciate “Red Herring” during the song of the same name. What you can really hear, though, are the fractured-funk rhythms, churning with an intensity worthy of the best of Lupus. This is a split release between Dischord and Regulus, but it bears only the former label’s address: 3819 Beecher St. NW, Washington, DC 20007-1802.