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Jul 27, 2021From the bombastic earworm title track to the pulsating requiem that is Paradise, to the twisted pop spectacle We Cannot Resist, Animal is utterly intoxicating – something that cannot be contained. Surrender to it.
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Aug 4, 2021What really grabs the attention about Animal though is its energy. ... LUMP are just as effective though when they bring the tempo down a bit.
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Aug 2, 2021Animal is a beast worthy of its own spotlight and attentions. The genre-crossing is much less surface level, as the duo creates grander and grander platforms for Marling’s commanding voice. The whole thing is far more theatrical, full of slow building ballads and cresting climaxes.
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Jul 28, 2021The results, on LUMP’s second album ‘Animal’, are simply thrilling.
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Jul 28, 2021Even though Animal has some second-half fits and starts, the album’s opening salvo and last half highlights place the album squarely in the running for year-end best of lists.
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Jul 27, 2021Between its playful, retro-electro settings and the murky presentiments of Marling’s allusive lyrics, Animal paints outside the lines of LUMP’s debut carefully, never suffocating the intuitive strangeness at its heart.
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Jul 27, 2021Wherever you care to drop the needle or let the shuffle button take you, the essence of this collaboration and the velocity of its execution somehow hoovers you up and brings you along. [Aug 2021, p.20]
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MojoJul 27, 2021Animal admirably slips standard musical taxonomy to take on a life of it own. [Aug 2021, p.83]
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Jul 27, 2021Indulgent by design but illuminated with imagination, it takes a few listens for the LP’s diamonds to truly shine, but when they do, they really shine bright.
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Jul 29, 2021Between the piano-led dreamscape of “Red Snakes”, the shimmering electronica of “Bloom at Night” and the pop-leaning “We Cannot Resist”, Animal feels restless right up until its six-and-a-half-minute closer “Phantom Limb”, which concludes with Marling’s autotuned voice reading out the album’s credits.
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Positive: 15 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Jul 31, 2021Certainly an improvement since their last record exploring some electronic like sounds, something that's not that usual for Marling.
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Jul 31, 2021An unusual sound for Laura Marling but interesting, incredibly good and well put together.
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Aug 5, 2021