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- Summary: The second album for the group is its first on the Epic label. A vinyl version named Animal! contains songs they preferred, whereas this album contains songs preferred by Epic.
- Record Label: Epic
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Pop
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Top Track
| Broadripple Is Burning | |
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| Children, Broadripple is burning And the girls are getting sick Off huffing glue up in the bathroom While their boyfriends pick up chicks. And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Thier major label debut is drenched in the same warm sonic haze and bizarro imagery as Flaming Lips, but any weirdness comes in the service of the songs. [Nov 2008, p.98]
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FilterWhile Margot's musical aspirations are at times akin to the drama of Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Wilco and Arcade Fire, the lyrics of frontman Richard Edwards are its genuine definition. [Fall 2008, p.100]
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Alternative PressIt doesn't quite have the emotional snap their debut so admirably possessed, but the musicians have an apparent precision of craft. [Jan 2008, p.125]
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Not Animal gets better as it progresses--the sparser, melancholic songs are pushed to the front, leaving the band's energetic material to bring up the rear--and Margot's sophomore album subsequently concludes on a high note, effectively masking any sour taste left by the band's battle with Epic Records.
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Not Animal is a more modest album that presents a shrewd view of Margot's strengths and weaknesses, indicating that the band is most successful when it doesn't try to be particularly complex.
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The album splits the difference between smart and smarty-pants: The articulate arrangements occasionally overdo the left-field instrumentation, and Richard Edwards’s empathetic short-story tales flirt with fussiness.
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It sounds like Broken Social Scene's members all broke up with their significant others and held a jam session on Saddle Creek Road. Morose, impeccably arranged, and monochromatic from start to finish, both incarnations of Animal are a perfect synthesis of indie-rock circa 2008.
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