Label: Iboga Records
Released: 2007

01. Red Robin
02. AK Is Burning
03. Circade
04. B.H.D.
05. Flock
06. Blew
07. Seven Seas
08. Forward

Antix is one of the most known acts involved in progressive sounds. This a project by Barton and Hayden Strom. Brothers duo come from New Zeland and all previous albums - "Lull", "Twin Coast Discovery" and a disc with remixes of the last one ("Twin Coast Remixes") - have released in Danish Iboga Records. Middle of 2007 brings the next Antix album - "Wanderers".

Soft progressive sounds with not complicated melodies - this is, in short, this album. The CD was created only for dance needs and in this style works good. However, the history of progressive sphere derived from psytrance shows us, that can be builded a progressive album that is also great for the lone listening in home - in this context "Wanderers" let me down, but of course till the moment when (in that home) exploding mini-euphoria of dancing. As I said: on the dancefloor this is a good album - it's not so complicated, every track starts with jumping kicks, it's easy to leave the rhythms and then come back to it... And now the proofs. "Circade" and "B.H.D." have so simple lines of main motives that anybody can do, really. Club influences can be seen in elements of rhythmic - percussion sounds like a marriage with house. The album defend itself with an argument that, from the technical point of view, it's great - but in the end, it's Antix. If I'm talking about the authors now, then in comparision with their previous works only two tracks - "Red Robin" and "Forward" - could be in some way their local incarnation. But only "in some way", because clubby news are everywhere in the present world of these brothers' music.

This isn't for sure the best album by Antix. In my opinion, it can be described in opposite category - as the worst album by brothers, and the whole "Wanderers": as disappointment. The biggest plus in this situation is that we have a fact of the new release by Antix. But looking from objectively side, not much diversity and too many simple and unambiguous elements we have here, so this can't be eaten by a fan of classic prog sounds, like me.