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UncutOct 29, 2015Such self-conscious nostalgia is stifling at times, but the best tracks transcend retro pastiche. [Dec 2015, p.71]
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Nov 4, 2015The band's touch with songcraft, as opposed to groove science, is less sure. But they do have a way with a cover.
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Nov 2, 2015Its base is the four original songs the band self-released on singles during 2013 and 2014, and each one is represented here, with the references to specific disco and post-disco artists and bygone production touches less obvious, a little more concealed than they are on the 2011 album.
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Nov 13, 2015By the end of Animal Nature, Escort proves it’s gotten craftier and has found a bit more clarity, and they hit a nostalgic sweet spot that will never grow old.
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Nov 2, 2015Inevitably, some of the studio tracks suffer by comparison; you can imagine Barbarians as an irresistible call to arms in a Brooklyn basement, but it falls a little flat here. But there’s nifty production work elsewhere.
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Q MagazineOct 29, 2015Second time around their disco shtick remains paramount but they've added traditional songwriting craft. [Dec 2015, p.106]
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Oct 29, 2015A solid offering that could have been improved by swapping some of the remixes for the originals.
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Oct 29, 2015Escort’s sense of abandon never quite reaches the heights of their disco forebears, but closing track Dancer, recorded before an audience in Brooklyn, reveals them to be a formidable live prospect.
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Oct 30, 2015By playing it too safe, Animal Nature isn’t worth recommending. It’s just sort of fine and that won’t cut it.