- Record Label: Secret City Records
- Release Date: Apr 29, 2016
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May 5, 2016Every few months, the members would meet up at their studio and play whatever they felt like without the looming pressure of album cycles or release dates. Eventually, these sessions became the basis for Waltzed In From The Rumbling, a record at once thoughtful and unwieldy.
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Apr 27, 2016Much of Waltzed in From the Rumbling's success lies in Plants and Animals' ability to look both inside and outside of their musical sphere, incorporating strings, choir vocals and found sounds while possessing the insight and musical acuity to make it all feel organic.
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Jun 15, 2016Waltzed In From the Rumbling is a showcase of uniquely thoughtful musicianship, shaped as much by the performance and structure as it is by the quality and pristine definition. It's the kind of warm, mellow evening record you might not know you needed, but it sooths and surprises enough to earn repeated listenings.
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May 13, 2016Understated but not weak, solid but never boring, the album proves that you don’t have to speak loudly to make yourself heard. Ambivalence never sounded so good.
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UncutApr 26, 2016Their fourth full-length is eclectic and confident. [Jun 2016, p.78]
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Apr 26, 2016Plants and Animals have created something beautiful, even if it's not wholly original.
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Apr 26, 2016Waltzed in from the Rumbling is a strong effort from a band that’s been around a while, making this kind of lovely indie rock since it was topping the CMJ charts in the mid 2000s. As other, bigger names wandered in the direction of disco (The Arcade Fire) or electronica (Sufjan), Plants & Animals have continued to hone their sound, and this new album is a testament to that work.
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May 11, 2016It may be an intentional shift, but the soulful resonance of 2012's The End of That has given way to an artful experimentalism that, while musically impressive, doesn't make as big an impact. Still, it's an ambitious near miss from a very good band that has proven it can be both cerebral and heartfelt.
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Q MagazineMay 5, 2016Those ideas aren't all great, but the strike rate is remarkably high. [Jul 2016, p.114]
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MojoApr 26, 2016Though the record perhaps lacks the one killer tune or irresistibly "come hither" song title that can really get you at it, the swooning Pure Heart, intermittently cinematic We Were One, neat instrumental segue Fata Morgana and sonically startling So Many Nights help flag a unique and fruitful cocktail of influences. [Jun 2016, p.90]