New Animal

Feb
06
posted by tommy

I know a girl. More than that (though that itself is significant for me this year) I know a girl who knows music. She said this about New Animal.

“It’s different to all the repetitive “we’re artsy surf-pop” unearthed stuff that’s everywhere at the moment. That’s probably because they’re not australian- and we all know Australians are nothing on Great Mother America (although, at least we don’t kill palestinians*). It’s definitely not happy music. It’s interesting music. I can’t really think of any music that it ‘sounds like’ but that could be because Justin Vernon is constantly on repeat on my itunes, which doesn’t leave much opportunity for me to appreciate anything other than folksy “I’ve-lost-all-faith-in-love” genres. Or maybe they’re just new and different.“

*She has retrospectively apologised for how grossly uninformed this comment was. She’s taking a Middle Eastern studies class this semester. Things are looking up.

New Animal – Nightmares of Candy Yang and the Black Italian

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Also, I recognise that I shamelessly work a Valar reference into a good portion of my posts about other bands but does the production here remind you a little bit of Make No Sound? I argue that it should. If you like what you’re hearing (or you don’t but you like the thought of a free album that you’ll never listen to) then download the full album right here. No charge.

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  1. Kris/::
    07/02/2011

    haha, a very interesting post!

    thanks tommy! its always interesting to see what people have to say about our sound. its nice that people arent lumping us into the general "lo fi" "beachy surf" sound… i love that stuff, but it isnt a huge influence on what we do, so its cool to see people hear what we are hearing.

    tell your friend i said thanks! (ill see what i can do about Palestine :p)

    -kris (new animal)

  2. tommy
    09/02/2011

    Cheers Kris! I passed on your message to my friend and she is now quietly optimistic regarding the Palestinian situation.

  3. Julius Skye's Music Blog
    11/02/2011

    i love this song kris… what are your influences? (goes to download album and try to guess)