La La Land, by Plants and Animals

La La Land

by Plants and Animals

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1.	Tom Cruz 04:52	buy track
2.	Swinging Bells 02:27	buy track
3.	American Idol 03:01	buy track
4.	Undone Melody 06:05	buy track
5.	Kon Tiki 03:22	buy track
6.	Game Shows 05:11	buy track
7.	The Mama Papa 04:18	buy track
8.	Fake It 04:19	buy track
9.	Celebration 04:56	buy track
10.	Future from the 80s 04:16	buy track
11.	Jeans Jeans Jeans 03:41	buy track

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La La Land, is louder, and tougher, but also showcases them their smoothest and most cohesive to-date. Inspired by a rediscovery of electric guitars, amplification and fuzz pedals, it takes us up and away from Parc Avenue’s Montreal-in-the-summer vibe, and out into the rock n’ roll ether. The album was recorded at the band’s hometown go-to studio in Montreal, The Treatment Room, and at Studio La Frette outside Paris—a brokedown old mansion filled with vintage gear and a killer board in the cellar instead of wine.

Though plenty of wine went into the album. As Warren puts it, “the Paris stuff is like a nice Bordeaux and the Montreal stuff is more like a baked potato. Sessions in Paris ended by 10pm, sessions in Montreal by 6am.” Rum and cokes inspired the initial Treatment Room sessions in late 2008. The album’s first track, “Tom Cruz,” eventually came out of these late nights. As the Woodman tells it, “it was December, pre-Christmas, so we fuelled the session with rum and cokes. They made us feel like Tom Cruise. It gave us killer smiles and made our enemies wither.”

Ultimately it’s this sense of hilarious confidence that currently characterizes Plants and Animals, and also gives La La Land its cohesion. The Woodman’s drums sound bigger and groovier, Nic colours the album with extra guitars and keyboards like a mad painter, and Warren’s vocals have taken even more ambitious strides.

“We got fat making the record but got skinny mixing it,” Warren jokes. After handing over album-mixing duties to someone other than Warren for the first time, the band decided they weren’t happy with the results, and camped out at the Treatment Room for two weeks in the fall of 2009 to remix the record. Warren even setup a tent in the studio, working around the clock to wrap things up. Many late nights and even more bad working titles later, La La Land was done.

In many ways La La Land is just as eclectic as Parc Avenue, but there’s something more mature holding it all together now. As they might say in the movies, La La Land isn’t a place—it’s a state of mind. Plants and Animals have never been a band with much interest in posturing or unnecessary theatrics, but on La La Land the curtain isn’t just pulled back, it’s gone entirely.

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released April 20, 2010

2010, 2010 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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