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- Summary: The second full-length release for the North Carolina singer-songwriter was recorded over a two year period.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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| Freaky Feedback Blues | |
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| There's this girl Let's call her Tanya She's got a heart of gold She don't cook like Buddy Holly But she knows how to rock n roll Kinda [?], struck... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Feb 5, 2016This Jekyll and Hyde hop from funky to somber on Songs in the Key of Animals caters to a wide a range of audiences and there’s not one throw away track to show for it. Suturing hooks and crafting theme songs has clearly given him a creative perspective unheard in quite awhile.
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Jan 29, 2016Songs in the Key of Animals begins sounding like the Bojack Horseman concept album nobody asked for.
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Jan 29, 2016A Tuesday afternoon pool party of a record, Songs in the Key of Animals sounds like a great time was had by all, but that you kind of had to be there to appreciate it.
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Feb 4, 2016Songs in the Key of Animals lacks the focus of A Love Extreme, but then again, we're talking about an album that was supposedly written on the fly.
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Feb 16, 2016Some tracks prize vibe over structure to their detriment.
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Jan 29, 2016The old cliché about double albums is that most could be greatly improved if edited down to one disc, but that doesn’t hold true here. Animals is an anomaly: a two-disc set without enough solid material for even a single LP.
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Q MagazineJan 29, 2016The over-punctuation is the least unnecessary thing about the lame pop of Shark Attack!!!!!!!!!!, meanwhile, the second half is noticeably more restrained, and aL the better for it. [Feb 2016, p.111]