The Jungle, by Plants and Animals

The Jungle

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1.	The Jungle 05:43	buy track
2.	Love That Boy 03:44	buy track
3.	House On Fire 04:35	buy track
4.	Sacrifice 03:41	buy track
5.	Get My Mind 03:40	buy track
6.	Le Queens 04:14	buy track
7.	In Your Eyes 05:18	buy track
8.	Bold 03:08	buy track

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released October 23, 2020

Montreal indie rock trio Plants and Animals announce “The Jungle”, their fifth studio album set to be released October 23rd via Secret City Records. Their shortest album yet and certainly their boldest, “The Jungle” is eight acts in a world full of noise. The album is auto-produced and was recorded at Mixart, their studio in Montreal.

The band explains : “We started working on this a couple of years ago. Warren was afraid for a friend’s health. He thought he was self-medicating too much and not taking care of himself. He couldn’t let go of this image of an overworked dude swallowing too many sleeping pills and falling asleep with the stove on. So it began as the place next door, sometime before Greta Thunberg turned the expression into a rallying cry, where Earth is the house and the people are sleeping. It’s terrifying, and on the whole we’re not unlike this friend, are we?”

“The Jungle” starts with electronic drums that sound like insects at night. A whole universe comes alive in the dark. It’s beautiful, complex and unsettling. Systematic and chaotic. All instinct, no plan. Voices taunt,“yeah yeah yeah.” This tangled time in which we find ourselves is reflected back in shadows.

Every song is such a landscape. The first one grinds to a halt and you become a kid looking out a car window at the moon, wondering how it’s still on your tail as you speed past a steady blur of trees. You watch a house go up in a yellow strobe that echoes the disco weirdness of Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer and David Bowie. You get pummelled by a rhythm then set free by a sudden change of scenery—the wind stops, clarity returns. You’re under a streetlight in Queens, soft-focus, slow motion, falling in love. You speak French now too, in case you didn’t already. Bienvenue.

These are personal experiences made in a volatile world, and they reflect that world right back at us, even by accident. There’s one song Nic sings to his teenage son who was dealing with climate change anxiety and drifting into uncharted independence. The band carries it out slowly together into a sweet blue horizon. Warren wrote the words to another shortly after losing his father. It’s about the things we inherit not necessarily being the things we want. In a broader sense, that’s where a lot of people find themselves right now.

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ADÈLE TROTTIER-RIVARD SANG AND PERCUSSED.
MISHKA STEIN PLAYED BASS ON TRACKS 2 AND 7.
MIXED AND RECORDED BY WARREN AT MIXART STUDIOS. ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING BY ANTOINE GOULET.
MASTERED BY ADAM AYAN AT GATEWAY MASTERING.
ARTWORK BY RAIMUND WONG.

All songs by Warren Spicer, Nicolas Basque and Matthew Woodley
Published by Secret City Publishing Inc.

2020 Plants and Animals under exclusive license to Secret City Records Inc.

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Plants and Animals Montreal, Québec

Plants and Animals have been playing together for 20 years. They were a big part of the mid-’00s Montreal music renaissance, when they first became known for their ferocious live show, and they still are.They have been nominated for prestigious awards, opened for big acts and headlined shows around the world.They are Nicolas Basque,Warren C. Spicer and Matthew Woodley. ... more

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