Plants And Animals Share New Track “Stay”
Secret City Records
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 taken 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.
The first single βStayβ exemplifies the large orchestral scope that Plants and Animals have unleashed, while channeling the gritty folk roots that bore Parc Avenue. The track opens with an acoustic folk vocal, reminiscent of past albums. Then, unexpectedly, the song takes an electric turn, exploding in sound, tempo, instrumentation, and depth, asking you to βlook inside your heartβ. βStayβ is an instant rock classic: epic and unforgettable.
Plants And Animals
Waltzed In From The Rumbling
(Secret City)
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Pre-Order via Secret City (vinyl) (CD)
Waltzed In From The Rumbling Track List:
1. We Were One
2. No Worries Are 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
Band Links:
SPILL NEW MUSIC: SILVERSTEIN – “CONFESSION”
SPILL NEW MUSIC: ENCEPHALON RELEASES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO βILLUSIONSβ FROM UPCOMING ALBUM βAUTOMATON ALL ALONGβ
SPILL VIDEO PREMIERE: FUCK YOU, TAMMY! – “SYCAMORE TREES”
SPILL NEW MUSIC: MELΓ – “WANT YOU TO SEE”
