PLANT AND ANIMALS- “NO WORRIES GONNA FIND US”
WALTZED IN FROM THE RUMBLING (APRIL 29, 2016)
Secret City Records
Friday, March 18, 2016
Eight years after their debut album Parc Avenue (2008), Montreal based and Polaris-Prize nominated artist Plants and Animalsβ newest evolution, Waltzed in from the Rumbling, is set for release April 29 on Secret City Records. Similarly recorded to tape, the new album embodies the raw musicianship characteristic of the group, while injecting symphonic crescendos, lyrical balladry, and metamorphic song developments. This is Plants and Animals’ most soulful and inventive collection of music yet. Eleven soundtracks fit to accompany leaps taken, ships sailed, dark water and pink skies.
Since their most recent LP, The End of That (2012), the members of Plants and Animals have begun families and took the time to slow down. Β Intentionally removing time constraints from their process, the group sought to reconnect with the honesty and autonomy of music created without pressure. “It was more like an art studio than a recording studio,” says lead vocalist Warren Spicer. “A mess, pieces of songs all over the place. We had this big canvas and were constantly filling in corners here, erasing there, repainting that part, standing back and looking at the whole picture to see what we had.” The time taken to write the album is reflected in climactic progressions within each song. Rather than a single frame, they give you the length of the horizon. Rather than a glimpseβthey give you a vision.
The influences of the new LP are far and wide: the broken soul of Van Morrison; the off-kilter geometry of J Dilla; the dark, French funk of Serge Gainsbourg; the fire of John Coltrane’s quartet; Messiaen’s synaesthesia; the quirk of Angelo Badalamenti. The result is pure Plants and Animals, wide open with room to move.
Plants and Animals are a Montreal-based trio that began playing together as kids, emerged on the international scene in 2008 and have developed a varied cult following ever since; built on the shoulders of their self-produced records, their intense live show, or bothβdepending on who you ask. They have been nominated for big awards. They have appeared on major radio and television programs. They have opened for household names and headlined many tours of their own around North America and Europe.
WALTZED IN FROM THE RUMBLING TRACKLIST
1. We Were One
2. No Worries Gonna Find Us
3. Fata Morgana
4. Stay
5. All Of The Time
6. So Many Nights
7. Flowers
8. Je voulais te dire
9. Off The Water
10 Johnny Is A Drummer
11. Pure Heart
Tour Dates
Fri, May 6 – WINOOSKI / Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival
Tues, May 10 – WASHINGTON, DC / DC9
Wed, May 11 – PHILADELPHIA, PA / Johnny Brendaβs
Fri, May 13 – BROOKLYN, NY / Rough Trade
Sat, May 14 – BOSTON, MA / Great Scott
Tues, May 17 – PITTSBURGH, PA / Club Cafe
Wed, May 18 – LOUISVILLE, KY / Zanzabar
Thurs, May 19 – COLUMBUS, OH / The Basement
Tues, May 31 – LONDON, UK / The Hoxton
Thurs, June 2 – PARIS, FR / Espace BSun, June 5 – TORONTO, ON / Field Trip
Fri, June 10 – WINNIPEG, MB / The Good Will Social Club
Sat, June 11 – SASKATOON, SK / Amigoβs
Mon, June 13 – EDMONTON, AB /Starlite Room
Tues, June 14 – CALGARY, AB / Marquee Room
Wed, June 15 – NELSON, BC / Spiritbar at the Hume Hotel
Thurs, June 16 – VANCOUVER, BC / The Imperial Theatre
Fri, June 17 – VICTORA, BC / Sugar Nightclub
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