Link "Not Animal!"
Something happened to the formerly happily cohabiting Nuclear So & So’s. The instruments in the mini-orchestra are frequently used in the service of tangential, discordant trumpet lines or grandiose proclamations in string ensemble; in either case the message is something about love (will tear us apart). Borrowing heavily on the guitar from Electioneering in I Am A Lightning Rod just serves to remind me how much more compelling Radiohead’s close-to-the-chest paranoia is than Margot’s emo gut spilling. This is the version the band wants you to hear, and while it’s got more heart, it also has two songs featuring a dude and chick trading verse. Add to this tenuous construction enough instrumentation to provoke the self-description “pit orchestra” and the drama is too much to handle. White-boy sex jokes (Hello Vagina), poser English-student metaphor (A Children’s Crusade on Acid) and good solid classical training abound. Not Animal is the version the band doesn’t want you to hear. This band described Sony BMG’s New York building as “kind of like the Death Star” back in 2006, prior to their national label debut on Artemis Records. This time, they’re on Epic — a subsidiary of that same Sony BMG (now Sony Music Entertainment, for you industry buffs). One should never criticize a band just for jumping to a major record label, but there certainly seems to be some disagreements with Darth. Draw conclusions. The instructions from the band are to listen to Animal! first, but you should ignore that and just pick one or the other (or use the handy sidebar on the left to find something better). Five tracks are the same. As for the remainder: Take Animal! if you want intricate and intimate. Take Not Animal if you want bright and jaunty with some ominous atmospherics. Take Broadripple is Burning either way because it’s carrying at least an entire star by itself.
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